Gerry Adams
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Person
- Born
- 1948-10-06
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Film & TV
Acting · Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Gerry Adams is an Irish republican politician who was, from 1983 to 2018, the leader of Sinn Féin. He has been played in films by actors such as John Lynch and Ian Beattie.
Known for
- Gerry Adams: A Ballymurphy Man — Self2025
- Kneecap — Gerry Adams2024
- The Ban — Himself2024
- The House of Paisley — Self2023
- The House of Paisley — Self2023
- The Agreement — Self2023
- Heist: The Northern Bank Robbery — Self (archive footage)2021
- Partition, 1921 — Self2021
- With God on Our Side — Self2021
- Endgame in Ireland — Self (archive footage)2021
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 14
- Total plays
- 19
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,272x
- <i>Phaser</i>crystallographic software
· 2007 · cited 19,959x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,321x
- Crystallography & NMR System: A New Software Suite for Macromolecular Structure Determination
· 1998 · cited 13,094x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,371x
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Key facts
- Vice president
- Phil Flynn John Joe McGirl Pat Doherty Mary Lou McDonald
- Preceded by
- Ruairí Ó Brádaigh
- Succeeded by
- Mary Lou McDonald
- Born
- Gerard Adams , ( 1948-10-06 ) 6 October 1948 (age 77) , Belfast , Northern Ireland
- Party
- Sinn Féin
- Spouse
- Collette McArdle ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1971 )
- Parent
- Gerry Adams Sr. (father)
- Education
- St. Mary's CBS, Belfast
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 6 October 1948
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gerard
- Family name
- Adams
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Belfast
- Occupation
- autobiographer
- Position held
- Teachta Dála
- Political party
- Sinn Féin
- Languages spoken
- English language
Article
Gerard Adams (Irish: Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh; born 6 October 1948) is an Irish republican retired politician who was the president of Sinn Féin from 1983 to 2018. He was a Teachta Dála for Louth from 2011 to 2020 and a Member of the Northern Ireland Legislative Assembly for Belfast West. From 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2011, he was the Member of Parliament for the Belfast West constituency, but followed the Sinn Féin policy of abstentionism in the UK Parliament.
Adams became involved in Irish republicanism in the late 1960s, and was an established figure in Irish activism for more than a decade before his 1983 election to Parliament. In 1984, Adams was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt by the Ulster Defence Association. From the late 1980s onwards, he was an important figure in the Northern Ireland peace process, entering into talks initially with Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader John Hume and then subsequently with the Irish and British governments. In 1986, he convinced Sinn Féin to change its traditional policy of abstentionism towards the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland. In 1998, it also took seats in the power-sharing Northern Ireland Assembly. In 2005, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) stated that its armed campaign was over and that it was exclusively committed to peaceful politics.
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1948 births21st-century writers from Northern IrelandIrish nationalistsIrish republicans interned without trialLeaders of Sinn FéinLiving peopleMale non-fiction writers from Northern IrelandMembers of the 31st DáilMembers of the 32nd DáilMembers of the Northern Ireland ForumMembers of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Belfast constituencies (since 1922)