
gerry adams


Uniting Ireland – an agreed future
The following speech by Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams, with preceding extracts from the speech, sets out an agenda for Irish unity, which was previously published here by Sinn Féin.

Gerry Adams’ tribute to Fidel Castro
Death of a revolutionary hero
Gerry Adams’ tribute to Fidel Castro, reproduced below, was originally published on the Léargas blog.

1981 Hunger Strike – inflicted a historic defeat on the Thatcher government
The following speech, by Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams, was made to the 2015 National Hunger Strike march and rally in Dundalk.
The election in 1981 of Irish republicans on hunger strike, to the British parliament and Irish Dáil, proved to the world, beyond doubt, that the political prisoners had immense popular support.
Prime Minister Thatcher’s criminalisation policy, supported by the Irish government, was discredited by election victories that transformed the struggle for a united Ireland.

Gerry Adams arrest – an attack on the peace process
By Frances Davis
The recent arrest and imprisonment of Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, who was subsequently released without charge, was a clear political intervention, designed to undermine the peace process and to reverse the rise in support across Ireland for Sinn Fein.
