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- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Confronting sectarianism | A wedding and a strike | I am not guilty – I want to go home
Confronting sectarianism The posting online of a vile video showing members of the Orange Order mocking the murder of Michaela McAreavey has been widely…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
The Planter and the Gael | Time for Truth | The Springhill/Westrock Massacre
The Planter and the Gael. Last week US Congress member Richie Neal, Chair of the Ways and Means Committee on Capitol Hill, led a Congressional delegation from…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
A referendum on the Future | Acht na Gaeilge Anois | Defending journalists
A referendum on the Future Sunday marked 24 years from the historic referendum in May 1998 that saw almost three quarters of people in the North vote in…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Lá Mór Dearg | Employers must talk to workers | Murder of Shireen Abu Akleh
Lá Mór Dearg As this column goes to print Boris Johnson comes to visit our political leaders in Hillsborough. Whatever he may say or not say one thing is…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
A transformative election | Attacks on Human Rights laws must be opposed
A transformative election The overwhelming majority of citizens on this island want our future to be different from what went before. Those who voted last…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
A historic election
The Sun Is Setting. The legacy of empire, of colonialism and of slavery is for many still a matter of the present and not the past. This is especially true for…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
May 5th - The Peoples Day | Taking a stand against hate crime | In Praise Of Napping
May 5th - The Peoples Day Less than one week to polling day and the pundits and pollsters are filling the airways and column inches with their take on who will…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
THE MUSIC MEN | Rióísn Reimagined
THE MUSIC MEN My recent tales of singsongs in the H Blocks have triggered more reminiscences of other such events. Two in particular stand out. Both were after…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Celebrating the Easter Rising | The Process of change is unstoppable
Celebrating the Easter Rising Today Irish republicans across Ireland and globally will commemorate and celebrate the men and women who rose up against the…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
A Question for Jeffrey | Delilah | Moore St Exhibition in the Kennedy Centre
A Question for Jeffrey. The democratic question remains the key issue internationally. It has been so since people asserted their right to citizenship. At the…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
UDR Declassified by Micheál Smith | Radio GaGa
UDR Declassified by Micheál Smith On 1 April 1970 the Ulster Defence Regiment of the British Army formally took its place in the ranks of the British Army. The…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Investing in Irish speakers | Moving Backwards? | Moore St Exhibition for Belfast
Moving Backwards? One unionist twitter account at the weekend posed the question; “How many different ways can the DUP tell us we MUST vote DUP no matter how…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Irish Neutrality not for sale | Great to Get Out | Lá Fhéile Pádraig Faoi Mhaise Daoibhse
Irish Neutrality is not for sale The Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to dominate the news agenda. Lines of tanks and armoured vehicles inexorably move…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Write On! | Palestinians deserve our support | Springhill/Westrock Massacre – 50 years ago:
Write On! Last Thursday was World Book Day. This year is the 25th anniversary of the event. This reminded me of the volume of publications produced by former…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Russia get out of Ukraine | Vote is a four letter word – Use it! | Pensions and Irish Unity
Russia get out of Ukraine The big story of the moment is the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Like many of you I have been watching the round the clock news…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
The Game is Up | Maura McCrory | Black Mountain
The Game is Up The singular message emerging from the conflicting voices within political unionism at this time is their opposition to the election of a Sinn…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Standing up to Bullies | A beautiful woman with a beautiful soul
Standing up to Bullies. Some politicians rarely, if ever see the irony in the words they use. Take Boris Johnson. He is currently using the dispute between the…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Ormeau Road collusion | Women leading the way | Growing Older
Ormeau Road collusion exposed Collusion between British intelligence, the RUC, UDR, British Army and Loyalist paramilitary organisations is a fact of life…
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Reflections on Bloody Sunday | Julian Assange should be freed | Julian Assange should be freed
Reflections on Bloody Sunday. Somehow human beings, including this columnist, put more stead in twenty year anniversaries than in nineteen year ones. So in the…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Save Moore Street | Remembering Clyde Bellecourt
Save Moore Street - Buy a raffle ticket for an original 1914 Mauser rifle Last Saturday hundreds of people took part in a Save Moore Street rally in Dublin…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Condolences are not enough | Can Dogs Think Pt 2
Condolences are not enough I want to extend my deepest condolences to the family and friends of Ashling Murphy. The spontaneous public outpouring of grief at…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Sectarianism must be ended | CAN DOGS THINK
Sectarianism must be ended: Sectarianism is a legacy of our colonial past. We have the opportunity to confine it to the dustbin of history. CAN DOGS THINK?…
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Strange how the right notes can end up in the wrong places | Archbishop Tutu
OUR old pal Tom Hartley is a fine singer. He and I have been known to duet together. Back in the day in C Wing in Belfast Prison on the Crumlin Road, his…
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A funny kind of New Year’s resolution | CAPUCHIN GENEROSITY AT CHRISTMAS | BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A funny kind of New Year’s resolution: NEW Year resolutions and I are old friends. Usually I muse at the end of the old year about what I need to commit myself…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
It's past time to release Leonard Peltier | A New Year resolution for a Citizens’ Assembly
THIS Christmas take a moment to think about Leonard Peltier. Leonard was convicted in 1977 of the murder in 1975 of two FBI agents during a confrontation at…
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The last number eleven up the Rock | Irish language project does young people proud |
The last number eleven up the Rock AT A cruinniú in Glór na Móna I noticed a pop-up advertising one of the projects Glór na Móna is pioneering. ‘Faoi Scáth an…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
The Treaty | The Dignity of Everyday Life | More questions than answers
The Treaty In the early hours of 6 December 1921 the Irish delegates taking part in the negotiations with the British government signed The Anglo Irish Treaty…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Six of The Best | Opinion Poll on Irish Unity | Standing with Palestinians
Six of The Best: I’m reading Colin Broderick’s ‘Thats That,’ an evocative account of growing up in Altnamuskin in Tyrone at the height of the conflict. Colin’s…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Gaels call for Citizens Assembly | Gaels call for Citizens Assembly | An Irish National Health Service
Gaels call for Citizens Assembly In a powerful video message 12,000 Ulster Gaels are appealing to our fellow Gaels in Munster, Leinster and Connaught to sign…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Rewriting History | Ratcheting up the Brexit crisis | Unity Day of Action
Rewriting History "The first casualty when war comes is the truth” said US Senator Hiram Johnson in 1917. We know only too well from our own recent experience…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
The Sunday World apologises | Eradicating Poverty | Lá breithe TG4 | Will they won’t they trigger Article 16?
The Sunday World apologises My case had to do with an article in the Sunday World in September 2015.. For me this was always about asserting my own integrity…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Criostóir de Baroid | Theresa McArdle | Time for Change – Time for Unity
Criostóir de Baróid Criostóir de Baróid died two weeks ago, surrounded by his family in Marymount Hospice in Cork where his wife Máire had died in February…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Courageous Alice never once flinched | Dublin’s Douglass plaque a fitting tribute | A moving song for Palestine
ALICE Toner lived in Ballymurphy Drive, not far from our house in Divismore Park. I was deeply saddened by her death. I knew Alice and her husband Fra all of…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Christy Moore returns to Belfast to salute H-Block heroes | WHO WILL SPEAK UP FOR LEFT-BEHIND LOYALISTS?
Christy returns to Belfast to salute H-Block heroes: THE first time Christy Moore sang ‘Ninety Miles from Dublin’ in West Belfast – his song about the…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Michael Davitt GAC | The Future of Moore Street | Tony McMahon
Michael Davitt GAC In October 2006 and again in August 2021 I was asked to give a talk on Michael Davitt to the members of Davitts GAC on the Falls Road as…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Jeffrey at the Crossroads | A game of chicken | Seán Ó Riada
Jeffrey at the Crossroads Is the Union the only reason why some working class unionist voters persist in voting for parties like the DUP when that party…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Biden tells Johnson a few home truths | Remembering Big Bob in the PD | 40 years on and their sacrifice remains a massive inspiration
Biden tells Johnson a few home truths While sitting beside Johnson at a press conference in the White House President Biden told the media that neither he…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Stories from the heart of the Blocks
NEXT week will mark 40 years from the end of the 1981 hunger strike. Much has been written this year and many events have taken place to remember those who…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Sam so special for for Northern Gaels | Jailbreaks always a big morale boost | Moore Street appeal
ACCORDING to media reports there was great elation among Palestinians when the news broke that six political prisoners had succeeded in tunnelling their way to…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Are you listening Jeffrey? | Reclaiming the Enlightenment
Are you listening Jeffrey? Unionism, especially its DUP component, has been talking up unionist and loyalist resistance to the Irish Protocol since before…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Planting a seed for the future | It’s all to play for in unity poll
FOR years I used to gather up acorns and chestnuts and hazelnuts and little sycamore seeds and all manner of other seeds. My growing methods are fairly basic…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Nicknames | 50 Years Married | Ballymurphy Poems and Summer reading.
Nicknames. When I was at primary school my nickname was Addies. It didn’t last beyond Saint Finian’s for some reason. My brothers, or at least some of them…
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An Féile Abú | Black Mountain | Afghanistan | The expulsion of Ken Loach
An Féile Abú Well done Féile an Phobail and to all of the staff who plan and prepare Féile. Many thanks to all those volunteers who work around the clock every…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Internment
Imagine lying in your bed as the sun begins to rise above the horizon. You are awakened by loud banging on your front door. The sound of breaking glass and the…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
The cause of Ireland should be the cause of Labour.
The internal machinations of the Labour Party in Britain are a matter for that party but the policies it adopts and advocates in relation to Ireland have for…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
The demand for truth | Cock A DoodleDoo | Climb For Unity
The demand for truth: One after another their faces appeared on my twitter feed. The very young. The older. Children and young people. Mothers and sisters and…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Together we can make a better future
Together we can make a better future: The Unity Referendum provision of the Good Friday Agreement provides a peaceful and democratic pathway to a United…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Springhill Massacre | Playing The Orange Card
The Springhill Massacre families are to be commended – like those hundreds of others in similar circumstances - for their courage and resilience in the face of…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Time Running out – Save Moore St | The Aghadavoyle Train Ambush
Time Running out – Save Moore St At the beginning of June the British-based property company Hammerson lodged three planning applications for major…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Memories of my wee sister Frances
MY sister Frances died last week. Death is part of the story of life. Is é seo ar sceal. Sibling grief is a very special grief. Brothers and sisters usually…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Boris is a Chancer | Nor Meekly Serve my time | The biggest Cuban Flag in the World
Boris is a Chancer: Last week was not a good week for Boris Johnson. Even before the weekend’s G7 summit began in Cornwall the news agenda was already…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Master Plan for Moore Street Unveiled | A fine day, thank God | Frederick Douglass
Master Plan for Moore Street Unveiled Most readers know that Moore Street in Dublin City Centre holds a special place in the history of Ireland. It was in…
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Preparing for Unity | Well done to those within loyalism who are trying to keep the peace:
Preparing for Unity: Hardly a week goes passed without some new aspect or commentary emerging on the issue of Irish Unity. When will the unity referendum by…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Belfast tribute to two remarkable women | Blues legend - Rab McCullough | Mountain memories
Belfast tribute to two remarkable women: Two Belfast women, Mary Ann McCracken and Winifred Carney, will soon have statues commemorating their heroism…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Ballymurphy came out of familiar playbook | Poots faces a big challenge
Ballymurphy came out of familiar playbook: The response of the Tory government of Boris Johnson, like that of Cameron and of every British and Unionist…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Innocent | Standing Idly By. Again | A Great result for Antrim
Innocent: This week the long running campaign for truth and justice by the families of the 10 people killed by the Parachute Regiment in Ballymurphy during…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Unionism at another crossroads | Israel still enforcing apartheid
Unionism at another crossroads: Monday was the birthday of partition. It was a century since the Northern State formally came into existence with the passing…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Let’s plan our own Future together | ANC supports Unity Referendum and a United Ireland.
Let’s plan our own Future together Michelle O’Neill hit the nail on the head in her interview on the Late Late Show with Ryan Tubridy last Friday evening. She…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Inflexible Unionism | Black Mountain | Palestinian Prisoners Day
Inflexible Unionism The current unionist narrative seeks to present the present political crisis as the fault of everyone else except themselves. Mostly they…