Gerry Adams Sr. joined the IRA at age 16. In 1942, he participated in an IRA ambush on a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) patrol but was shot, arrested and sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. [15]

Dec 15, 2024 · In Say Nothing, FX's new drama about the Troubles, Gerry Adams—the Irish republican politician who was a long-time president of the Sinn Féin political party—plays a major role.

Feb 9, 2018 · Irish Times political editor Pat Leahy looks at the life and career of Gerry Adams and his journey from Ballymurphy to Dáil Éireann.

Jan 23, 2025 · Gerry Adams, former member of Ireland’s Dail (parliament), longtime president of Sinn Fein, long regarded as the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), and one of the chief architects of Sinn Fein’s shift to a policy of seeking a peaceful settlement to sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.

Dec 16, 2024 · Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams is to give evidence in his own defence in a civil action being brought against him in London by three IRA bomb victims.

Gerard Adams Sr. (1926 – 17 November 2003) was an Irish 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".

Jan 22, 2025 · Gerry Adams’ compensation for past unlawful detention is largely a red herring. Getting information from the IRA and loyalists for victims is the real prize.

Gerry Adams, orig. Gerard Adams, (born Oct. 6, 1948, Belfast, N.Ire.), Irish nationalist and president of Sinn Féin, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). He was interned without trial as a suspected terrorist in 1972, 1973–76, and 1978.

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. They are seeking symbolic damages of £1...

May 23, 2018 · It was as president of Sinn Féin that Adams became well known in Ulster. Although his party generally received less than one-fifth of the popular vote in elections, it was the "aboveground" arm of the "underground" IRA, and as such was central to the issue of terrorist violence in Northern Ireland.