Adams, Gerry

GERRY ADAMS has been president of Sinn Fein, the largest all-Ireland party, since 1983. He served as a member of Parliament for West Belfast from 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2011. Since then he has been the Teachta Dala or representative to the Irish Parliament, the Dail, for Louth since 2011. Heralded as a gifted writer by "The New York Times", he is the author of a volume of fiction, "The Street and Other Stories", as well a several volumes of non-fiction, including " A Farther Share: Ireland's Long Road to Peace", which was published to wide acclaim by Random House in 2003. He is a native...