Officially, today, Gerry Adams is a retired Irish politician ... The US labeled the IRA a terrorist group in the 1980s. The British had been politically and militarily involved with their Irish ...

Former Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams (right) walks behind the coffin of Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane as it leaves his family home on Cliftonville Road, Belfast (Niall Carson/PA) McFarlane ...

Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams delivered a graveside ... Speaking of their time working together, Mr Adams described the 1980s as being a “decade of significant change for Sinn Féin ...

Gerry Adams was born in 1948 in West Belfast, where he continues to reside with his family. He became involved in the civil rights campaign in the late 1960s and was interned without trial in 1972.