Gerry Adams
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Gerry Adams Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh TD |
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Adams in 2013
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| Leader of Sinn Féin | |
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Assumed office 13 November 1983 |
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| Deputy |
Phil Flynn John Joe McGirl Pat Doherty Mary Lou McDonald |
| Preceded by | Ruairí Ó Brádaigh |
| Teachta Dála | |
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Assumed office February 2011 |
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| Constituency | Louth |
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Member of Parliament for Belfast West |
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In office 1 May 1997 – 26 January 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Joe Hendron |
| Succeeded by | Paul Maskey |
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In office 9 June 1983 – 9 April 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Gerry Fitt |
| Succeeded by | Joe Hendron |
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Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast West |
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In office 25 June 1998 – 7 December 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency created |
| Succeeded by | Pat Sheehan |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Gerard Adams 6 October 1948 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | Sinn Féin |
| Spouse(s) | Collette McArdle |
| Children | 1 |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Website | Official website |
Gerard "Gerry" Adams (Irish: Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh; born 6 October 1948) is an Irish republican politician who is the president of the Sinn Féin political party and a Teachta Dála (TD; a member of the Irish parliament) for Louth since the 2011 general election.
From 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2011, he was an abstentionist Member of Parliament (MP) of the British Parliament for the Belfast West constituency.
He has been the president of Sinn Féin since 1983. Since that time the party has become the third-largest party in the Republic of Ireland, the second-largest political party in Northern Ireland and the largest Irish nationalist party in that region. In 1984, Adams was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt by several gunmen from the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), including John Gregg. From the late 1980s onwards, Adams was an important figure in the Northern Ireland peace process, initially following contact by the then-Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader John Hume and then subsequently with the Irish and British governments.
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