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Gerry Adams

Author of Before the Dawn: An Autobiography

35+ Works 565 Members 3 Reviews

About the Author

Gerry Adams President of Sinn Fein since 1983, he has served as MP for West Belfast from 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to the present.

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Works by Gerry Adams

Before the Dawn: An Autobiography (1996) 148 copies

Falls Memories: A Belfast Life (1982) 53 copies

Free Ireland: Towards a Lasting Peace (1994) 51 copies

A Farther Shore: Ireland's Long Road to Peace (2003) 48 copies

Cage Eleven (1990) 48 copies

Hope and History: Making Peace in Ireland (2003) 35 copies

The Street and Other Stories (1992) 35 copies

The Politics of Irish Freedom (1986) 22 copies

An Irish Voice: The Quest for Peace (1997) 19 copies

Hidden Truths: Bloody Sunday 1972 (1998) 18 copies

Selected Writings (1734) 14 copies

An Irish Eye (2007) 12 copies

The New Ireland: A Vision for the Future (2005) 9 copies

Pathway to Peace (1988) 8 copies

An Irish Journal (2001) 6 copies

Who Fears to Speak...?: The Story of Belfast and the 1916 Rising (2001) 6 copies

Never give up : selected writings (2017) 5 copies

My Little Book of Tweets (2016) 3 copies

Black Mountain: and other stories (2021) 3 copies

Strade di Belfast (1994) 3 copies

The Negotiator's cook book (2018) 2 copies

Ireland : one island, no borders (2014) 2 copies

Irlande Libre (1996) 2 copies

Per una libera Irlanda: storia e strategia del movimento repubblicano irlandese 2 copies

The complete apricot cookbook (1985) 1 copy

Herinneringen (1996) 1 copy

Per la pace in Irlanda (1995) 1 copy

Maire Drumm A Visionary: A Rebel Heart 1 copy

Chevolution (2014) 1 copy

Hacia la libertad de Irlanda (1994) 1 copy

Falls Memories: A Belfast Life 1 copy

Notre jour viendra (1998) 1 copy

Antes del amanecer (GEBARA) (Spanish Edition) (1997) 1 copy

Cage Eleven: Writings From Prison 1 copy

Signposts to Independence and Socialism 1 copy

Associated Works

Here to Stay, Here to Fight: A Race Today Anthology (2019) — Contributor — 14 copies

Playboy Magazine ~ April 1989 (Erika Eleniak) (1989) — Interview — 2 copies

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1948-20-06
Gender: male
Nationality: Ireland
Places of residence: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Education: St Marys CBGS Belfast
Occupations: politician
Organizations: Sinn Fein
Northern Irish Assembly

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Reviews

A Farther Shore: Ireland's Long Road to Peace by Gerry Adams

Great look at the struggles that Ireland has gone through, and the perception of how things are by the IRA. This book definitely has a slanted perspective, but I found it very informative

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tetchechury | Apr 4, 2007 |

Falls Memories: A Belfast Life by Gerry Adams

Adams, Gerry. Falls Memories: A Belfast Life. Roberts Rinehart Publishers, Niwot, CO, 1994.

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BrianDewey | Jul 30, 2007 |

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Works: 35
Also by: 2
Members: 565
Popularity: #44,255
Rating: ½ 3.5

Reviews: 3
ISBNs: 76
Languages: 5

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