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Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Current Affairs, Politics, Irish Unity, History and Culture.
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- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
The Process of Change Must Continue | Voting for Bobby Sands
The Process of Change Must Continue: The recent loyalist sponsored violence and the provocative and inflammatory language of unionist political leaders has led…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Why Would Arlene Leave Fermanagh? | The second battle of Moore Street
Why Would Arlene Leave Fermanagh? Arlene Foster talks of leaving the North in the event of a Yes referendum vote for a United Ireland. “I cannot see how I…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Beannachtaí na Cásca | Bin the Orange Card | Inclusion and Reconciliation in the new Ireland | Easter Eggs
Bin the Orange Card Time & again unionist leaders have whipped up anger & fear. Playing the Orange Card is older than the northern state. It’s time to call a…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Micheál Martin has it badly wrong on Irish unity | The big cat and dog debate - I love dogs!
Micheál has it badly wrong on Irish unity: While no-one was able to travel to the USA this St Patrick’s Day because of the pandemic restrictions it was still…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Lá Féile Padráig Faoi Mhaise Daoibhse | Seachtain na Gaeilge | Jaz McCann's 6000 days
6000 DAYS. Jaz McCann writes very well. The reader is quickly drawn into his world. From the opening sentences of his Prologue Jaz paints the sights and…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Up The Republic, She Raised The Battle Cry: Kathleen (Largey) Thompson
It is my great privilege to have met many fine women and men over the years. The Léargas series of books is a record of some of these I came to know or to know…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
March 1st 1981: A date to remember | The Belfast Hills
A date to remember Dates can evoke powerful memories for all of us. The birth or death of a loved one; a wedding; a new job; a joyous family occasion or a…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Political Unionism and Operation Fear
So what are we to make of the threats by some Unionist leaders over the Irish Protocol? Do we ignore them? I think not. Even though we have heard all this all…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Fly Me To The Moon
Fly Me To The Moon. I downloaded a new album, Cheek to Cheek, by Tony Bennett and Lady GaGa. It is brilliant. I am a longtime fan of Mr Bennett and in more…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Brexit - A Child of the DUP and Anger at attack on victims and survivors
Brexit - A Child of the DUP. I have been watching the machinations of the DUP over the Article 16 carry on. T So, what’s it all about? For me it’s very simple…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Outrage at attack on Bookies families
On the 5th of February 1992, five people were brutally murdered, with a further seven injured in a massacre carried out by the UDA. Each year the relatives and…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Fra McCann's amazing life of struggle; Growing support for a border referendum; Me, Larry King and the SF broadcast ban
Fra McCann's amazing life of struggle I have known Fra McCann for almost 50 years. Even as he battles prostate cancer Fra continues to live his life as a…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Des Wilson – A Voice for the Poor and Oppressed by Joe McVeigh; The ANC and the 1981 hunger strikers; The storming of the Capitol
Des Wilson – A Voice for the Poor and Oppressed by Joe McVeigh Fr. Joe McVeigh was a close friend and colleague of Des Wilson. It wasn’t just that both were…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
My 2021 list and the Unity Conversation
Singing and climbing in 2021 A Chairde, a very happy 2021 to you all. Here are ten personal things I want to do in this bright new year. · Survive the…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
The Government of Ireland Act and Time to end Partition
The Government of Ireland Act was signed into British Law by a British King on 23 December 1920. In 1998 Sinn Féin succeeded in having this act scrapped - I…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Gunboat Diplomacy and the DUP dup-ed again
Nollaig Shona agus athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibhse go leir. I know it’s going to be a strange Christmas. It’s always poignant as we think of absent friends and…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Danny D's new book and 'The Session'
This week's Podcast has its roots in a conversation with Danny D; Rab; & Tomboy. We were all in Cage 11 with Bobby Sands and recalled his learning the guitar…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
The Economic Benefits of a United Ireland; Remembering Danny Groves; and the Pat Finucane case
Its Gerry Adams here again. And a very big welcome to you all to this Podcast. On Friday Sinn Féin published its discussion paper the Economic Benefits of a…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Solidarity with Palestinian Hunger Striker Remembering Pat McGivern and well done Breanndán O Beaglaoich
071120 It’s Gerry Adams and in this podcast I want to deal with a number of issues: a hunger strike by a Palestinian prisoner Maher al-Akhras and the success…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
'Hold and stick to the Republic' The Story of Kevin Barry
Few names from the Tan War 100 years ago are as well known that of Kevin Barry. His torture and execution by the British at the age of 18 generated huge…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Another part of our history destroyed
My Podcast this week deals with the demolition of Herbert Park in Dublin, the home of the only leader of the 1916 Rising to be killed in action, and the report…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Thank you Chuck Feeney
For those of you who don’t know him or have never heard of him Chuck Feeney is an extraordinary human being whose kindness and vision has brought hope and joy…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
An Taoiseach Micheál Martin is not a United Irelander
This weeks Podcast is about An Taoiseach Micheál Martin; his failure to address Irish Unity; and questions his Shared Island Unit. Partition is almost 100…
Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry AdamsWitness Trees
WITNESS TREES. I used to have an old hard backed copy of Nora Connolly O’Brien’s; ‘Portrait Of A Rebel Father’. This wonderful account of James Connolly’s…
Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry AdamsJoin the Campaign to Protect Moore Street and the 1916 Battlefield site
This podcast is going to deal with the shameful refusal of successive Irish governments to develop a national monument, a cultural quarter, a revolutionary…
Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry AdamsThe last time I met Kieran Doherty
Sunday, August 2nd is the anniversary of the death on hunger strike in 1981 of Andersonstown man Kieran Doherty. Normally, August is also when Sinn Féin holds…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Celebrating the Twelfth
This week I thought I would talk about the 12th in this podcast. When I mentioned a few days ago to some friends that I was going to do this podcast about the…
Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry AdamsLeading the Opposition
The big spin from last week and the formation of the new government in Dublin is that civil war politics is dead and gone. But the truth is that for most…
Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry AdamsBodenstown and the re-alignment of Irish politics
Traditionally the third Sunday of June is when Irish republicans from across the island of Ireland gather at the graveside of Wolfe Tone in Bodenstown. Such…
Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry AdamsYou only die once. You live everyday.
You only die once.You live everyday. I first met Martin McGuinness shortly before he & I travelled to London in 1972 as part of a delegation to negotiate with…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Long Kesh Escapes
Last week the British Supreme Court quashed two convictions I had received in 1975 for attempting to escape from Long Kesh internment camp. It was a long ten…
Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry AdamsRemembering Bobby Sands
A remembrance of my friend and comrade Bobby Sands who died on hunger strike this week (5 May) 1981. Bobby was the first of ten republican prisoners who died…
- Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
A Change Gotta Come
Current Affairs, Politics, Irish Unity, History and Culture.