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Ourselves Alone: An Interview with Gerry Adams

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
April 1991

May 9, 2026 by Leave a Comment

The Sinn Féin office is located in a what could hardly be called a luxury building in what seems to be a mostly deserted area of West Belfast. In the room where I sit, there is a one-bar electric fire, a couple of mismatched chairs and little else. Somewhere on the outside a band is practicing, the drums that one usually associates with Loyalists are getting a fair belting from … [Read more...] about Ourselves Alone: An Interview with Gerry Adams

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

The Road to Peace

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

October 1, 2000 by Leave a Comment

In 1991, Irish America magazine published one of the first interviews with Gerry Adams. (As far as we can tell, Playboy magazine was the only other American magazine to interview Adams before that. (In the Republic of Ireland, N. Ireland and the UK, broadcasting bans were in place that prevented media outlets from airing interviews with Sinn Féin members). In March, of that … [Read more...] about Gerry Adams

The Road to Peace

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