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100	1		_aAdams, Gerry, _d1948- _eauthor. _916741
245	1	0	_aBefore the dawn : _ban autobiography / _cGerry Adams.
300			_axxviii, 338 pages ; _c22 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
520			_a"In this fascinating memoir of his early life, Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Féin, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, describes the development of the modern "Troubles'' in Northern Ireland and his own central role in them, culminating in the tragic hunger strike by imprisoned IRA members in 1981. Born in 1948, Adams vividly recalls growing up in the working-class Ballymurphy district of West Belfast, where he became involved in the civil rights campaign in the late 1960s and was active in campaigns around issues of housing, unemployment, and civil rights. The unionist forces reacted violently to the protests, and the situation exploded into civil war. Adams recounts his growing radicalization, his leadership role in the political wing of the IRA, and the British use of secret courts to condemn republicans. Adams was a political prisoner, one of the first in the notorious Northern Irish jail Long Kesh, and underwent torture at the hands of the British authorities, which he describes in detail. Adams chronicles the dramatic hunger strikes of Bobby Sands, Francis Hughes, Raymond McCreesh, and others in 1980-81, which he initially resisted but which he now recognizes as having revitalized the nationalist movement. Before the Dawn is an engaging and revealing self-portrait that is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand modern Ireland. First published in 1996--at a time when politics in Northern Ireland was at an impasse, and the Good Friday Agreement was still many tense months away--this new edition contains a brand new introduction and epilogue written by the author, covering Adams's family, Brexit, and the peace process."--Provided by publisher.
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610	2	0	_aIrish Republican Army _vBiography. _916742
610	2	0	_aSinn Fein _vBiography. _916743
650		0	_aPoliticians _zNorthern Ireland _vBiography. _916744
650		0	_aLegislators _zNorthern Ireland _vBiography. _916745
650		0	_aPoliticians _zIreland _vBiography. _916746
651		0	_aNorthern Ireland _xPolitics and government _y1968-1998. _916747
651		0	_aIreland _xPolitics and government _y1949- _916748
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aAdams, Gerry, 1948- _tBefore the dawn. _dNotre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2018] _z9780268103798 _w(DLC) 2018000672.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aAdams, Gerry, 1948- _tBefore the dawn. _dNotre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2018] _z9780268103798 _w(DLC) 2018000672.
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