An Irish Voice: The Quest for Peace - Softcover

Adams, Gerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570981566 ISBN 13: 9781570981562

Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1997

Synopsis

281 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Leader Of The Sinn Fein, The Irish Republican Party.

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About the Author

President of Sinn Féin and TD for Louth, Gerry Adams has been a published writer since 1982. His books have won critical acclaim in many quarters and have been widely translated. His writings range from local history and reminiscence to politics and short stories, and they include the fullest and most authoritative exposition of modern Irish republicanism.

Born in West Belfast in 1948 into a family with close ties to both the trade union and republican movements, Gerry Adams is the eldest of ten children. His mother was an articulate and gentle woman, his father a republican activist who had been jailed at the age of sixteen, and he was partly reared by his grandmother, who nurtured in him a love of reading.

His childhood, despite its material poverty, he has described in glowing and humorous terms, recollecting golden hours spent playing on the slopes of the mountain behind his home and celebrating the intimate sense of community in the tightly packed streets of working-class West Belfast. But even before leaving school to work as a barman, he had become aware of the inequities and inequalities of life in the north of Ireland. Soon he was engaged in direct action on the issues of housing, unemployment and civil rights.

For many years his voice was banned from radio and television by both the British and Irish governments, while commentators and politicians condemned him and all he stood for. But through those years his books made an important contribution to an understanding of the true circumstances of life and politics in the north of Ireland.

James F. Clarity of the New York Times described him in the Irish Independent as "A good writer of fiction whose stories are not IRA agitprop but serious art."

Synopsis

In 1992, while unable to get an American Visa, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was invited to write a series of columns for the "Irish Voice" newspaper and the "Irish American" magazine. They began as reports from Belfast but soon developed into a chronicle of the emerging peace process. An "Irish Voice" seamlessly collects many of these important articles under one cover to provide a first-hand account of the modern Republican movement and the ongoing peace process in Ireland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Publishers
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570981566
• ISBN 13: 9781570981562
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256