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  1. Gerard Adams Sr. (1926 – 17 November 2003) was a Belfast Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer who took part in its Northern Campaign in the 1940s. He has also been described as "important in the emergence of the Provisional IRA in 1970".

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Gerry_AdamsGerry Adams - Wikipedia

    Gerard Adams ( Irish: Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh; [1] born 6 October 1948) is an Irish republican politician who was the president of Sinn Féin between 13 November 1983 and 10 February 2018, and served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Louth from 2011 to 2020.

  3. Apr 30, 2021 · Gerry Adams, Vice-President of Sinn Fein, is elected to Westminster. He becomes president of Sinn Fein later in the year.

  4. Jun 26, 2022 · His father, Gerry Adams Sr, was an IRA man, wounded by the RUC in 1942 and sentenced to eight years in prison for attempted murder. According to his account, Mr Adams sold firewood on the streets to buy stale cakes from a local bakery and carried them home at dawn in a pillow slip.

  5. Apr 24, 2024 · Gerry Adams (born October 6, 1948, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is the former president of Sinn Féin, long regarded as the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), and one of the chief architects of Sinn Féin’s shift to a policy of seeking a peaceful settlement to sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.

  6. Apr 3, 2021 · In the 1980s King was a supporter of the IRA and became friends with Gerry Adams, acting as go-between for Adams and former US president Bill Clinton during the peace process.

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  8. Jan 19, 2024 · Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams can be sued in a personal capacity by victims of IRA bomb attacks in England, the High Court in London has ruled.

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