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Interview with Gerry Adams by Nick Stadlen for the Guardian in September 2007

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Transcript of an interview with Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein, by Nick Stadlen for the Guardian in September 2007. Following the St. Andrew’s Agreement of November 2006, full power was devolved to a power-sharing assembly in Northern Ireland in May 2007. The DUP, SDLP, Sinn Fein and UUP all nominated members of the new Executive under this arrangement. In this interview Adams discusses the possibilities of peace in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1998. This is the second of a two part interview. The Guardian is a leading British daily newspaper.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 12 September 2007

Name of First Interviewee: Gerry Adams

Role at time of Interview: President of Sinn Fein

Interviewer: Nick Stadlen

Purpose: News

Media: Transcript

Copyright: (c) Guardian News & Media Ltd

Link: Read the transcript

Programme/Book/Article: The Guardian

Time Period covered: 1920-2007

Key Individuals: Gerry Adams, Pat Finucane, John Hume, Tony Blair, Nelson Mandela, Louis Mountbatten

Key Words: IRA, partition, British government, Sinn Fein, Belfast Agreement, Good Friday Agreement, Stalker/Sampson Report, religion, civil rights, SDLP, Sunningdale Agreement

 

 

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