Gerry adams autobiography of benjamin
The theme is self-improvement and while reading it, one is reminded of another famous American - albeit a fictional one - who also kept a..
This is the Gerry Adams interview, as a part of the [William J.] Clinton Project.
Before The Dawn
I had great difficulty putting the book away once I started reading.
In addition to the very serious stuff of Britain’s constant harassment, the IRA revenge, the unionist, UVF, partitioning, etc., Adams’ story includes the humor that is a necessity to pull through violent and trying times.
For example, in the late 60s he and his buddies did a bit of the popular at the time—streaking buck naked around Belfast. Also he and his buddies started a window cleaning business only to go belly up and to realize “…faced with a choice of cleaning windows for a living or changing the world, we took the easy option.”
Adams lists many times when the actions of the British only brought more of the Irish to the republican cause as oppressive occupation still does.
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