Gerry Adams
Gerry Adams
Gerard Adamsis an Irish republican politician who is the president of the Sinn Féin political party, and a Teachta Dálafor Louth since the 2011 general election...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 October 1948
CityBelfast, Northern Ireland
CountryIreland
years government ira
For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
determination struggle selflessness
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment.
judgment good-things conditions
We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.
friday happy-friday agreement
We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.
friday agreement rights
The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.
republican capacity sinn-fein
Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.
leadership commitment army
The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.
equality issues unions
The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.
absent mindset required unionist
The psychological mindset that is required for peacemaking is absent from Unionist thinking,
bound build distrust opportunity people resolve seize space
There is bound to be distrust here. People have been hurt, people have been killed. There is bound to be suspicion. There is bound to be hatred. There is bound to be fear. And the way to resolve that is to seize that opportunity and build on that opportunity and widen the space which has been created.
glorify people point view war whatever
War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.
courage decisions far future needed reaching
Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
came cast good helping narrow position ways
When I came in, I said I had hoped... that we would have a good meeting, and we had, ... I put it to Mr. Trimble that he and I had been cast in this position and we had to narrow the gap. We had to try (to find) ways of me helping him and him helping me.
decision direct initiative result taken today
The decision comes today as a direct result of an initiative taken by the Sinn Fein,