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Gerry Adams
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Gerry Adams (Gerard Adams), 1948-, Northern Irish political leader. Born into an Irish nationalist family, Adams became politically active during the Catholic civil rights demonstrations of the 1960s, joining
Sinn Féin
and most probably (despite Adams's denials) the Irish Republican Army (IRA). He spent most of years between 1972 and 1983 interned as a suspected IRA member; at the same time he became vice president (1979-83) and president (1983-) of Sinn Féin and was regarded as increasingly influential in the IRA. In 1984 he survived an assassination attempt by Protestant extremists.
In the late 1980s, Adams was prominent among those Irish republicans who begin to ...
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