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Hibernia

By Irish America Staff
October / November 2005

February 22, 2025 by Leave a Comment

Chekechea Pryor from South Central Los Angeles left the United States for the first time last July and made her way to Belfast to study Irish history and shoot a documentary film. She met with Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams and visited the West Belfast Festival where she and Adams chatted about how great it was that she brought the Southern California weather with her. "I … [Read more...] about Hibernia

Gerry Adams

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Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
October / November 2000

October 1, 2000 by Leave a Comment

Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Féin, is the most well-known Irish politician outside the island of Ireland. As a civil rights activist in Northern Ireland in the late sixties, a victim of Britain's oppressive internment policy in the seventies, and a purported I.R.A. member, Adams' life story reflects the evolution of the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland. The following excerpt is … [Read more...] about Gerry Adams

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