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Gerry Adams


Born
in Béal Feirste, Ireland
October 06, 1948

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Gerard "Gerry" Adams, MLA, MP (Irish: Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh; born 6 October 1948) is an Irish republican politician and abstentionist Westminster Member of Parliament for Belfast West. He is the president of Sinn Féin, the political party at the top of the latest North of Ireland election polls amidst a three-way split in the traditionally dominant unionist vote. Sinn Féin is the second largest party in the Northern Assembly.

From the late 1980s onwards, Adams has been an important figure in Ireland's peace process, initially following contact by the then Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader John Hume and subsequently with the Irish and British governments and then other parties. In 2005, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA)
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An Open Letter to My Unionist Neighbours | Fairytale of New York |

 An Open Letter to My Unionist Neighbours

A Chairde,

I want to respectfully reach out to my unionist neighbours at this time of ongoing change on our island and continuous turbulence and conflict in parts of our world. We should count our blessings. Imperfect though it might be we have peace and the ability to work out our difficulties peacefully.

This ability to find solutions is frustrated by the B

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“It will always be a batt le a day between those who want
maximum change and those who want to maintain the
status quo.”
Gerry Adams

“It may not be right to kill, but sometimes it is necessary.”
Gerry Adams, Before The Dawn

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