Gerry Adams Sr.

Gerry Adams Sr.

Gerry Adams Sr. (1926 – November 17 2003) was a Belfast Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer who took part in its Northern Campaign in the 1940s.

He was captured during an IRA operation in 1942, and served five years in prison, but was released under an amnesty because of his youth at the time of conviction.

He married Anne Hannaway, also a republican from an established republican family, by whom he had thirteen children (three of whom died in infancy), including Gerry Adams, who became a leading figure in Sinn Féin and is now its President, as well as absentionist MP for West Belfast.

External links

* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,1088156,00.html obituary] from "The Guardian"


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