Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams

This weeks Podcast is about An Taoiseach Micheál Martin; his failure to address Irish Unity; and questions his Shared Island Unit. Partition is almost 100 years old. But for democrats across this isl...

9 Sep 202010min

WITNESS TREES. I used to have an old hard backed copy of Nora Connolly O’Brien’s; ‘Portrait Of A Rebel Father’. This wonderful account of James Connolly’s life, as recalled by his daughter, is a must ...

25 Aug 20207min

This podcast is going to deal with the shameful refusal of successive Irish governments to develop a national monument, a cultural quarter, a revolutionary quarter, a freedom quarter, a 1916 quarter o...

13 Aug 202013min

Sunday, August 2nd is the anniversary of the death on hunger strike in 1981 of Andersonstown man Kieran Doherty. Normally, August is also when Sinn Féin holds its National Commemoration in remembrance...

30 Juli 202011min

This week I thought I would talk about the 12th in this podcast. When I mentioned a few days ago to some friends that I was going to do this podcast about the 12th and asked them what they thought if ...

16 Juli 202012min

The big spin from last week and the formation of the new government in Dublin is that civil war politics is dead and gone. But the truth is that for most career politicians they have been dead for d...

1 Juli 202011min

Traditionally the third Sunday of June is when Irish republicans from across the island of Ireland gather at the graveside of Wolfe Tone in Bodenstown. Such annual commemorations have been taking plac...

17 Juni 202010min

You only die once.You live everyday.I first met Martin McGuinness shortly before he & I travelled to London in 1972 as part of a delegation to negotiate with the British govt. Martin would have been s...

2 Juni 20207min