Jerry adams biography
•
Gerry Adams: beskrivning of Sinn Féin leader
He is one of the most recognisable and controversial figures in Irish politics.
But, after 34 years as president of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams has announced his ambition to step down as leader.
The move marks a historic shift in the political landscape in both Northern Ireland and the Republic.
The 69-year-old Belfast native emerged from the turbulent history of Northern Ireland to become one the island's foremost figures in republicanism.
To some he fryst vatten hailed as a peacemaker, for leading the republican movement away from its long, violent campaign towards peaceful and democratic means.
To others, he is a hate figure who publicly justified murders carried out by the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
The paramilitary group is believed to be responsible for about 1,700 deaths during more than 30 years of violence, mostly in Northern Ireland, that became known as the Troubles.
The Sinn Féin leader has consistently denied that he was ever
•
Gerry Adams
Gerard "Gerry" Adams (Irish: Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh)[1] (born 6 October, 1948 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an Irishpolitician who was the president of Sinn Féin, a political party that wants Northern Ireland to join the Republic of Ireland. He was a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly in Belfast and was a member of the British Parliament for Belfast West. He does not go to Parliament because he does not believe that Britain should control Northern Ireland, this is called abstentionism.
Adams is a spokesman for the Irish republican movement or the "Provisional movement". This includes Sinn Féin and the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA). The IRA is illegal in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, because it is called a terrorist group by both governments. Adams is thought to have persuaded the IRA to give up its war against the UK in return for devolved government for Northern Ireland.
From the late 1980s, Adams was an importa
•
Gerry Adams
1948– )
Northern Irish republican leader, president of Sinn Féin since 1983. In recent years Adams has made the transition from alleged terrorist to peacemaker.
Born in the nationalist Falls Road area of Belfast, Adams has consistently opposed British jurisdiction over Northern Ireland and has agitated for British ‘withdrawal’ as the first step towards a united Ireland. He was a founder member of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, which campaigned for equal political and economic rights for Northern Ireland's large minority of Roman Catholics. Although Adams denies ever having been a member of the IRA, it is widely believed that by 1972 he was a member of that organization's army council and commanded its key Belfast division; he was charged with membership of the IRA in 1978 but was freed seven months later because of insufficient evidence. Adams was interned in Long Kesh as a suspected terrorist in 1972, released to take part in secret talks with the Bri