Gerry Adams

Gerry Adams: Fleadh and Féile made 2026 a real year to remember

FOLLOWING on from Tradfest – well done Dónal and everyone involved – Féile and the Fleadh were mighty. Sixteen days of Féile An Phobail, separate but running parallel with a week of the first Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann to be held in Belfast. An 1.6 million Fleadh hoppers meandered their way through Belfast soaking up the music, the craic and the joyful atmosphere as musicians and dancers playing their hearts out on streets and in pubs and music venues.

GERRY ADAMS: New Irelanders will reap what women like Martina have sown

ON Saturday a packed St Mary’s gave a huge welcome to Martina Anderson, who was launching her personal and hugely important autobiography – ‘Choosing the Struggle’.

Gerry Adams: The day Gerry Kelly put on his dancing shoes in Sligo

MY friend and comrade Gerry Kelly has announced his decision not to stand in the Assembly election next May. That does not mean that he will no longer be a republican activist. No chance of that. As I found out when I stepped back from electoral politics, there is still a lot to do. And I am certain Gerry Kelly will also find that to be true.

GERRY ADAMS: Féile opens another chapter on women’s experience

FÉILE an Phobail is the launch pad each year of exiting new projects, and especially new books. One such book this year is ‘Women’s Voices, Hopes for a New Ireland’. The book is published by Sinn Féin’s Commission on the Future of Ireland and will be launched at 1pm on August 4 in Áras Uí Chonghaile by Uachtarán Shinn Féin Mary Lou McDonald TD.

GERRY ADAMS: No surprises from Micheál Martin on unity vote

THE decision by Micheál Martin last week to oppose Sinn Féin’s ‘Planning for Constitutional Change Bill 2026’ was no real surprise. His opposition to any meaningful planning for Irish unity has been transparently obvious for many years.

GERRY ADAMS: More pieces of the unity jigsaw being put in place

THIS week significant developments that can shape the future direction of constitutional politics on this island are taking place in Leinster House. On Tuesday Sinn Féin’s Bill setting out a practical plan to achieve a united Ireland is up for discussion. Fine Gael is moving ahead with its plan for a blueprint for Irish unity for November. And other parties, including the Social Democrats and Labour, have expressed their support for unity and, notwithstanding Micheál Martin’s opposition, it is obvious that there are many within Fianna Fáil who understand that planning for unity makes sense.

GERRY ADAMS: A new plan for 1916 battlefield site is the way forward

THE 1916 Moore Street Battlefield site in the centre of Dublin is a hugely important historical and cultural location whose significance has been ignored by successive Irish governments for over a century. Currently much of the Moore Street terrace and adjoining lanes are under threat of demolition by the London-based developer Hammerson.

GERRY ADAMS: Unity conversation picks up pace in Dublin circles

THE ‘Planning for Constitutional Change Bill 2026’, which I referenced in last week’s column, has passed its first hurdle in the Dáil. It will now go to second stage on July 7 and then on to the Committee stage before returning to the Dáil later in the year.

Gerry Adams: Pride shines out amidst the racism and the violence

THE bulletholes from the August 1969 sectarian pogrom against the people of the Falls area are still visible on the front wall of St Comgall’s Primary School, Divis Street. Last Thursday lunchtime, a few yards from where whole terraces of houses were burned out, scores of community activists from across Belfast came together in Ionad Eileen Howell to discuss another pogrom. This time the pogrom was rooted in violent racism.

GERRY ADAMS: An open letter to my Orange Order neighbours

AS June heads towards July the distant beat of your drums is pounding out their rhythm. The marching season for all of the Loyal Orders is well under way and the 12th of July is fast approaching. One July, sitting during yet another negotiation into the early hours with Tony Blairm the rat-a-tat-tat of Lambegs sundered the quiet. We paused as he asked if I knew what that was. “Yes,” I replied, “that’s the Orangemen.”“Jungle drums?” he said.

Gerry Adams: Our new Lord Mayor owes a lot to Granny Donnelly

THERE was a time when younger people I used to bump into would say to me by way of introduction “You used to know my Mammy.” “Or my Daddy.” Nowadays they say to me “You used to know my Granny.”

GERRY ADAMS: How the Bunscoil carved its place in our city’s history

A FEW weeks after the Good Friday Agreement was agreed in April 1998 I brought a delegation of the Board of Governors of Bunscoil Phobail Feirste on the Shaws Road in West Belfast to meet the British Secretary of State Mo Mowlam.

GERRY ADAMS: Fianna Fáil turn away from their foundational aim

LAST Saturday the Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis in Dublin marked the centenary of that party. At its foundation in 1926 it was agreed that the party would be titled ‘Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party’.

GERRY ADAMS: The people are ahead of the politicians on Irish unity

AT the time of writing this week’s column Keir Starmer is still the Leader of the British Labour Party and Prime Minister. On Monday he delivered a ‘Save Keir Starmer’ speech which may or may not work for him. Can he survive the voices of opposition within Labour? That is a matter for his party.

GERRY ADAMS: Springhill heroes invoke warm local memories

WHEN I was a wee buck growing up in Ballymurphy there was a river at the back of the houses across from our home place at the corner of Glenalina Road and Divismore Park. The river ran the length of our street and the length of Ballymurphy Road before exiting below the Whiterock Road and into the City Cemetery. From there it meandered down to and under the Falls Road beside the bus depot and onwards to the Bog Meadows. You can see it there to this day. The stretch which used to border our street was long ago captured and incarcerated in a pipe below ground.

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