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Socialist Christian Donating Member (383 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 07:14 PM
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Adams' father dies
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Articles.asp?Article=67144&Sn=WORL


BELFAST: Gerry Adams Sr, a former Irish Republican Army prisoner and father of the Sinn Fein leader, died following a lengthy illness, his family said yesterday. He was 77.

The senior Adams was credited with shaping his son's support for violent insurrection in Northern Ireland, but was never a high-ranking figure in Sinn Fein-IRA movement. The elder Adams served an eight-year prison sentence after shooting a Belfast police officer in the foot in a botched IRA operation in 1942.

He was interned without trial as an IRA suspect in the early 1970s - at times sharing prison space with his much more famous son. In recent years the short, silver-haired Adams - invariably called "Auld Gerry" in Sinn Fein circles - had regularly attended public Sinn Fein-IRA rallies in Catholic west Belfast
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LeftofU Donating Member (421 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 07:16 PM
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1. I'll light a candle for him....
he fought the good fight. I just wish the fighting was over.
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neuvocat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 07:25 PM
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2. I thought his son undertook peaceful means.
I apparently know nothing about all this.
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