A public address by Gerry Adams

A public address by Gerry Adams
Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 08:00PM
More video info at iop.harvard.edu/node/1846

[@adamowen6226]

Gerry Adams is a great orator and leader. Tiocfaidh ár lá 🇮🇪

[@derekfraser3379]

Great orator , Gerry Adams.

[@ATLmodK]

At the end he apologized for having a migraine while speaking. Wow, I have those and can’t speak as well on my best days

[@ATLmodK]

Gerry Adams is the person, living or dead, with whom I would most like to have a conversation. In addition my daughter received her MA from this institution. So glad I found this video.

[@ATLmodK]

@@monty0289 you are not reading what I said. I said that there were people in the IRA who were unhappy that the military actions of the IRA were ceased without the final outcome of subduing the British to the point of causing the British to withdraw from all activities in Northern Ireland. These people are, in my opinion, ridiculously (to use your word) unrealistic. They still exist and from time to time cause needless damage. They hate Gerry Adams as much as you do. I decided that you were of one opinion and not interested in a debate but hoping that you could just insult me and denigrate any nationalists or innocent victim of collusion during the troubles so I deleted my texts as I saw you had either deleted your own or KZbin had removed them.

[@ATLmodK]

@@monty0289 By the way, did you listen to the speech Mr.Adams gave that these comments are attached to.? You seem to assume that I am ignorant of events that occurred in Irish history but I won’t make an assumption that your only interest in this foreign policy speech in the United States was to show me how angry you are that, after considerable study of events in 20th century Ireland and Northern Ireland, I believe Gerry Adams accomplished a lot for the safety of all those i n Northern Ireland.

[@ATLmodK]

@@monty0289I am fully aware that the IRA committed atrocities. I believe their actions were not only cruel, and caused suffering among innocent people in Northern Ireland, but that they rarely had an understandable military objective. I believe that the Omagh bomb for instance had only the purpose of disrupting the peace process but served no objective. The perpetrators of that event wanted only to keep on bombing and killing with the unrealistic intent of subduing the British perhaps which of course was not possible. Instead of taking two or three words I say out of context and trying to make me answer for something I did not say or intend to say, I would be grateful if you actually read all that I said so that you can understand my meaning.

[@ciaran3629]

Fantastic Military Technician and political wunderkind long live Gerry ❤

[@TodayFreedom]

Videos such as this are crucial documents of the history of the Troubles. I’m glad it’s been uploaded but it really should’ve been put online much sooner.

[@davemckeown7629]

It's a real pity there are numerous lies in it and dialogue was always an alternative to violence. That's what we are told now by SF.

[@patrickferran1678]

What a great Republican icon he showed great leadership to the Republican movement. 😎😎😎

[@angelmatos9143]

Gerry Adams is a miracle of the political world.

[@CRAWFORD147]

Even the irish republic who he claimed he was supporting him didnt want him...evil evil man...even Martin maguinness became best friends with Paisley. Adams was encripted for years on public tv because he was a great speaker and liar and the uneducated were sucked in by him...IRA commander and evil man

[@reginaosullivan5146]

Devolution of power delivered us to the center of the heart ❤ if we pull it from the left it will kill us if we pull it from the right it will kill us🤔💔

[@NorthernIrelandBob]

Sorry not getting it🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@reginaosullivan5146]

@@NorthernIrelandBob honest hearts produce honest actions its hard to get it

[@NorthernIrelandBob]

@@reginaosullivan5146 I don’t know you and I’m sorry to judge but I think it’s very naive to think that your “honest heart” theory will work. Your heart can be as “honest” as you like but that doesn’t help if people such as the IRA are killing you and trying to force you in to relinquishing your citizenship!

[@reginaosullivan5146]

@@NorthernIrelandBob you have nothing to be sorry about Robert the only person that can judge me is me myself my wish for you is to find a peaceful solution on your journey

[@angelmatos9143]

With 3 Nobel Prizes in Literature, there's an underlying intellectual current in Ireland that has my admiration as a person from the other side of the world. Their search for peace is difficult & admirable.

[@kellieeverts8462]

No one can take that away

[@davidegan8076]

What yr is this?

[@kellieeverts8462]

Need business with trade...which builds exchange ...good measures are always well recieved

[@kellieeverts8462]

Talking is a mediate space

[@kellieeverts8462]

I believe Ireland already united

[@CRAWFORD147]

great decepter from the truth

[@kellieeverts8462]

As what is Granted

[@user-qx8bk3vx2g]

Is their a differance between the old ira and todays ira

[@kellieeverts8462]

What follws from that is what it is

[@kirstinetermansen2213]

Optain peace, is as native , to talk , until peace is established, no Time limited,

[@davidravenscroft9235]

Pity Michael Stone wasn't in the audience!!!!!

[@patrickferran1678]

He's a clown. Gerry Adams is a great leader and a Republican icon. Why did the loyalist and British surrender. Lest we forget. 😎😎😎

[@davidravenscroft9235]

A paid agent of the British Army.....fact

[@davemckeown7629]

The British are still in Northern Ireland. I think you'll find the IRA surrendered as they knew they would not succeed.

[@davidegan8076]

How to teach history? Ah tell the truth! Obviously

[@Huumf]

Lo the wheezing at the start 😂

[@cannibalholocaust3015]

Was hoping a respirator was on hand

[@kellieeverts8462]

Any county may be emulated as long as it isn't lead...to hell whith a fester that rabid

[@kirstinetermansen2213]

Noone wants war,.

[@greigferguson9734]

Free palestine - Tiocfaidh ár lá. Up the Celtic

[@emcg1236]

Susperb.

[@irishguy9311]

Irish Americans are the best Irish people on the Planet!!!😎👍🏻🍀🇮🇪🇺🇸💯

[@artetas-army5982]

Na bi ag caint American le do thoil

[@cianw2942]

Actual Irish people people are better

[@petermccabe7026]

Jean mcconville

[@Horizon344]

11:31 Revolutionary Republicanism is about the pursuit of political power thru violence. 11:40 There is no "British rule" in Ireland to seek "freedom" from. 15:09 There wasn't a military stalemate in Ulster in the early 1990's, the P-IRA was facing military defeat by Crown Forces & rejection by the Irish people who were vocally turning against its murder campaign in large numbers. 15:48 The involvement of the North Americans in PIRA's disbandment was no more than diplomatic window-dressing to allow Republican terrorism to leave the stage with the pretense of dignity, it wasn't essential in any way. 19:13 The DUP was a political hard-line democratic movement that formed in opposition to the IRA's political violence, by an Ulster Scottish population that was under attack. 25:32: There was no "British occupation" in Ulster in the 1970's, & there was a democratic option for Sinn Fein to pursue its beliefs peacefully, but it chose not to do it, favouring political violence instead. 32:39 The problem isn't Irish division, it's Irish vs Ulster Scots division. The omission of the existence of the Ulster Scots here shows the fundamental blinkeredness of this statement & its supporting philosophy. 33:14 Note how involvement from North American politicians is earlier referred to approvingly, whereas involvement from London is "outside interference". 33:42 Ulster's place in the British Kingdom is based upon democratic right.

[@bdenbhurrito]

You sure packed a lot of lies in there didn’t you

[@niallsheehan474]

NI is not Ulster the three counties of Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan contained too many nationalists and were left out so the British could have their sectarian headcount well in their favour. NI is just six wee counties that were amongst the most prosperous on the Island at the time of partition and are now amongst the poorest.

[@stephennoble]

The man is a lier.

[@user-on2ys9jr6t]

He appears to be sitting.

[@mick268]

but he can talk, and spell

[@NorthernIrelandBob]

The Protestants that remained in the south after partition have been slowly eradicated from “Irish” society! We saw what happened during the troubles, Protestant farmers on the border were murdered and intimidated off their properties, which were subsequently taken over by Catholic farmers, classic ethnic cleansing. I am no stranger to loss, I had many friends die during the troubles but as an Ulsterman I would rather go down fighting than go out on my knees !

[@irishguy9311]

I served in the Irish Defence Forces with lots of “Protestant” Irish men, most were Officers good people no big deal… Religion is nonsense, and again it’s nonsense to not like people because of their religion (yep thats sectarianism)…

[@ruairijoseph]

That’s your narrative and you’re entitled to it. You don’t speak for Protestants in Southern Ireland… this nonsense about going down fighting… I bet you’ll leave it to kids to do the fighting for you and fill up some more prisons all over again. Time for some grownup thinking Robert… Demographics will sort this all out very soon… ask Nigel Dodds in North Belfast to explain that for you.

[@garyhutton2654]

I'm from a nationalist background I don't want anyone on their knees , my family is mixed English and Irish I wish you kindness and hope want United Ireland that means United people 🇮🇪🇬🇧

[@NorthernIrelandBob]

@@garyhutton2654 I appreciate the kind words but the reality is I fear for the Protestant community in a Republic. You just need to see some of the comments here about “planters” and “loyalists” to see the enmity towards us! I believe our life would me made hell in an all Ireland!

[@garyhutton2654]

@@NorthernIrelandBob Dear sir, the Irish Fenians were formed by the Protestant church goers ie church of Ireland and the majority were from a British background in Ireland and Presbyterian for example Leopold Wolf Tone a Presbyterian ? Very nationalist knows this it's not a secret . You saw the BREXIT debate all farmers of whatever side loathed it . You are my friend so to speak . Don't be fooled by all the the process of United I'm a halfer can't help that . My uncles and cousins are from Portsmouth in the navy . If one one Irishman be they Irish or British be harmed them then it's over ! Happy Christmas dear friend

[@NorthernIrelandBob]

Words are cheap!! Republicans will never accommodate Ulster Protestants/Unionists!

[@TodayFreedom]

Protestants have been part of the Irish independence movement for over 250 years. The Irish Protestant community is officially recognised in the Irish Flag. Protestantism has never been the issue at all, and as time passes it becomes even less an issue. A United Ireland will come, but it will come in time and without any more violence. We’ve had enough. If nobody in your family has been murdered in this horrific campaign then you really don’t know what the pain is like.

[@smoozerish]

Absolute nonsense. W.B Yeats is one of our most celebrated historical figures and he was a protestant.

[@NorthernIrelandBob]

@@smoozerish oh yeah ONE famous person! The Protestant population in your republic has diminished since partition. Classic ethnic cleansing !

[@conorledwith530]

Very ignorant and offensive remark, You idiot

[@NorthernIrelandBob]

@@conorledwith530 Typical republican, the truth hurts