It comes to an end this weekend. Gerry Adams has traveled a long and unpredictable political road, from his internment without trial in Cage 11 of Long Kesh in 1972 to shaking hands and sharing ...

Okay, Gerry Adams is a politician with a group affiliated ... but refused to sit in the House of Commons, a Sinn Féin policy. That same year, 1983, he became the head of the party.

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.

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 ...