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- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Self-dertmination | Nell & Edna
Champion Palestinian Self-determination In less than five weeks the genocidal war by the Israel government against the Palestinian people will enter his second…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Cease Fire | Féile | James Woods
The 94 Cessation The IRA cessation is 30 years old this Saturday. That Wednesday morning on 31 August 1994 two journalists – Barney Rowan from the BBC and…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Féile 24 | Irish Unity
Féile 24 I thought I would reflect on some aspects of Féile 24 in this week’s column. In particular the debates and discussions. First of all I’m sure all…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Kneecap | Maureen Wilson | Gaza
Kneecap I’m a big fan of Kneecap. From the time they were called NÍ CEAPAINN – a clever use of the Irish phrase and a play on the English words Kneecapping. Ní…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
No Pasarán | Rita
No to racists and fascists - No Pasarán! I was delighted to attend Féile An Phobail’s Carnival Parade last Saturday as it meandered its colourful, inclusive…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Moore Street | End Israel’s genocidal war | Féile Aris
Moore Street – Rising to our Future The campaign to save the 1916 Moore Street Battlefield site and those iconic buildings and streetscape that are forever…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Unity Referendum | Any Tickets
Significant boost for Unity Referendum This summer the momentum behind the demand for constitutional change and for the Good Friday Agreement commitment to a…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Solidarity | Release Leonard Peltier | Lies and Hypocrisy
Solidarity Works Forty years ago this month, ten workers from the Henry Street branch of Dunnes Stores in Dublin's city centre went on strike to protest…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
KEIR STARMER | Good Election for SF | Truth
AN OPEN LETTER TO KEIR STARMER Keir a chara, Congratulations on your election as British Prime Minister. I wish you well in the many challenges facing you and…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
NO PASARAN | Mícheál
NO PASARAN! Across Europe, in the USA, the Middle East and in England regressive political elements are gathering strength. In the North of Ireland we have…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Pádraic Fiacc | United Ireland | Danny D | Gaels Against Genocide
Pádraic Fiacc The first book I wrote was Falls Memories. Brandon Books led by the late Steve Mac Donagh was my publisher. I asked Steve if we could include…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
A show case for Irish Unity
A Great Showcase for Unity The SSE Arena in Belfast was buzzing with positivity last Saturday as several thousand people participated in one of the largest…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
This will Pass | Sactions Now | Ella
This Too Will Pass All of this is grist to the mill of our opponents. But we do not begrudge them that. One of our political achievements is to expose the…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Pathway to Change | Elections
IRELAND'S Future has an event in the SSE Arena in Belfast on Saturday, June 15. Entitled Pathway to Change, it has all the makings of a seminal moment in our…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Irish Unity | Gaza | A better world
Irish Unity makes economic sense Last month a report by the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) caught the headlines with the claim that…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Say no to London | Nakba
Dublin Needs To Say No To London. Last week Mr Justice Humphreys, sitting in the High Court in Belfast, in his summary of judgement ordered the “disapplication…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Immigrants are not the enemy | Recognise the State of Palestine
Immigrants are not the enemy. Divide and conquer is an age old tactic. It is often utilised by conservative elements to advance their regressive agendas. This…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Student Protests | Captive Columns | Rights in a New Ireland
Solidarity to Student Protesters In the late 1960s the major national and international issues of the day that helped shape my politics were the anti-Vietnam…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Moore Street | Mass Graves | The Falls
A successful conference in support of Moore St. Last week The Moore Street Preservation Trust and Uachtarán Shinn Féin Mary Lou McDonald organised a conference…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Palestine | Sean Mackel | Rights in a New Ireland
It time to recognise the State of Palestine In 2014 Sinn Féin brought forward a Dáil motion calling on the government to “officially recognise the State of…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Unity | 100 Years | Keep supporting Palestinian people
Expanding the debate on Unity A recent report - "Northern Ireland Subvention: Possible Unification Effects" - published by the Institute of International and…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Antrim | Six Months of Hell
Up Antrim! 24 years ago I wrote a short piece for Antrim 2000. I discovered it this week when I was clearingout three decades of accumulated books, newspaper…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Special Rapporteur criticises Irish government on Gaza
Special Rapporteur criticises Irish government on Gaza Fifteen years ago this month I led a Sinn Féin delegation on a visit to the occupied Palestinian…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Leo made the right call | Gaza Heart Break | Moore Street
Leo finally made the right call LEO Varadkar’s resignation from the office of An Taoiseach and as leader of Fine Gael caught observers by surprise. On…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Easter Lily | Moore St. Raffle | Clíodhna
Wear An Easter Lily I did not think Easter is almost upon us. It was our oldest lad’s oldest lad who remarked to me that Easter was early this year. I was…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
International Women’s Day | Two formidable Belfast Women
International Women’s Day Last Friday was International Women’s Day – a day when around the world humankind celebrates the work of women who are active in…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Irish Unity Hope & Change | Palestine | International Women's Day
The Commission on the Future of Ireland held successful public meetings in Fermanagh and West Tyrone on Irish Unity. Friends of Sinn Féin USA and various other…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Casement | Starvation in Gaza
Casement I have spent many enjoyable afternoons in Casement Park watching countless football and hurling games and playing in some of them. I have lost count…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Respect | Window on the Past | Ceasefire Now
Respect On Sunday last I spoke at the 40th Anniversary Commemoration of the killing by the SAS of IRA Volunteers Henry Hogan and Declan Martin in Dunloy County…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Information Appeal | Israel’s War against Children | Moore Street
An appeal for Information In the 1970s the IRA shot dead and secretly buried a number of people. This is a terrible legacy of that period of our history. The…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Historic Change | Alex Maskey | Ivor Browne
Historic Change The restoration last Saturday of the political institutions and the election of Michelle O'Neill as First Minister marks an extraordinary…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Kneecap | South Africa | Áras Uí Chonghaile
Comhghairdeas Kneecap Comhghairdeas Kneecap as an rath a bhí ar bhur scannán ag féile scannán Sundance. Last August I travelled over to a studio close to…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Time for Clarity | Irish Government & Palestine
Time for Clarity. The question – will he or won’t he – has yet to be answered. Will Jeffrey Donaldson provide the leadership needed to persuade his party to go…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Gaza | Irish Unity NYC | Fermanagh Blackbird
WCNSFs – Wounded Child No Surviving Family Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the west Bank passed the 100 day mark at the weekend…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Death of a hero | Kitson | Nollaig na mBan
Death of a Hero Just before Christmas my colleague Greg O'Loughlin, the Executive Director of Friends of Sinn Féin in the USA , gave me the sad news that…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
This land is your land
This Land Is Your Land. I am a long time fan of Woody Guthrie. He is one of the worlds great song writers in the English language and many of his words are as…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
A new year wish
So, 2023 was a very busy year. Lots of activism. 2024 is already shaping up to be even busier. So, join the campaigns for a Citizens’ Assembly and for the…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
A Boy Named Jay | 2024 Momentum towards Unity
A Boy named Jay I did a book signing for Christmas at An Fhuiseog’s stand in the Kennedy Centre. It was a pleasant hour of banter and craic, meeting old…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Shane | Dehumanising Palestinians | Christian Ceol
Shane: Last Friday I travelled to Nenagh for the funeral of Shane MacGowan. It was a sad and yet joyous event with family and friends lifting their voices and…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Slán Shane | Connolly House | Lies of War
Slán Shane Shane MacGowan was a friend of West Belfast. Back in 1988 in the wake of the killings of IRA Volunteers Mairead Farrell, Dan McCann and Sean Savage…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Where to for Loyalism? | Peace requires respect for Palestinian rights | The Far Right must be challenged
Where to for Loyalism? I have met many loyalists over a very long time. In prison. Out of prison. In secret or in private talks going back to the 1970s. And…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Strength to strength | Seán Harte | Palestine
strength to strength Regular readers will know that Ionad Eileen Howell/St. Comgall’s was formally opened in June by the US Economic Envoy Joe Kennedy. It came…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Fr Alec Reid | Ard Fheis
Fr. Alec Reid Next Wednesday – 22 November – will mark the tenth anniversary of the death of Father Alec Reid. It is a matter of wonderment that a decade has…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Unity | Ethnic Cleansing | Crann Na Saoirse
The Unity Debate Seven key Irish-American organisations have announced an ‘Irish Unity Summit – For a New and United Ireland’ to be held in New York on 1st…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Wolfe Tone | Ceasefires Now | Pulse
Wolfe Tone’s Cordial Union Last week I attended an event in Parliament Buildings at Stormont, hosted by US Special Economic Envoy Joe Kennedy. There was a…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
We are all Palestinians | Peacemakers | Tír Chonaill Thuaidh
We are all Palestinians As I write this week’s column all of the scéal coming from the Israeli government and its international allies indicate that a ground…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Irish Peace Initiative | People's Assembly | Moore Street Tour
Ireland Should Launch A Middle East Peace Initiative. Like many of you I have been shocked and distressed by the appalling events in the Middle East. The…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
It's Time for Peace | 75 | 1916 walking tour
Peace Talks Now The scale of the assault by Palestinian fighters into Israel last weekend is unparalleled. The scenes of death and destruction on both sides…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
David Ervine | Street Art | Mól An Óige
David Ervine - The Man Who Swallowed A Dictionary Anyone who knew David Ervine or knows of him will appreciate the title of Bobby Niblock’s play - The Man Who…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Listen | My Big Toe
We must listen to each other Efforts by the British government and the unionist parties to stymie the conversation on future constitutional change has actually…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Lough Neagh | Tories & Pinochet | Martin
Lough Neagh Seamus Heaney’s poem, published in 1969, captures much of what makes Lough Neagh unique. It has long been a place of myth and fable, where the…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Palestine | Sepsis | Sláinte
Palestinian State Last week the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin visited Israel, the West Bank and Jordan. It was an opportunity for…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Moore Street | Never Alone | Walking with my mother
Unique Robert Ballagh Moore Street Print As regular readers of this column know I have been involved for a very long time in the campaign to protect and…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Cork | X | Seamus Heaney
The Road To Cork. In 1986 I gave a talk at a Sinn Féin conference which became known by activists of my vintage as The Road to Cork or The Bus to Cork. More of…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Hunger Strike
Visiting the Hunger Strikers This column will be in Cork, le cuidiu Dia, to attend the National Hunger Strike Commemoration on Sunday. It’s the first time that…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
John Joe McGirl | Campaigning
John Joe McGirl – an unbreakable Fenian In the course of almost 60 years of activism I have been very lucky to meet many wonderful, committed, compassionate…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Activism | Rita | Internment
Be An Activist I had the privilege of attending many of the debates and discussions which are a unique and vital part of Féile an Phobail. Well done to all the…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
A tribute to Rita O'Hare
Dawn Doyle remembers her friend and comrade Rita O’Hare. Last week (Thursday August 2023) I launched my latest Léargas book An Bhean Dearg about Rita O’Hare…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Frederick Douglass | Hunger Strike Commemoration | Pen Behind The Wire
Frederick Douglass takes pride of place in Belfast A great crowd turned out on Monday morning in Lombard St. in Belfast City Centre for the unveiling by…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Tony Bennett | Jessie Jackson | Partitionist mindset of RTE
Fly Me To The Moon. I am a longtime fan of Tony Bennett. News of his death at the fine age of ninety six brings an end to an amazing life and a wonderful…