Gerry Adams Sinn Féin President was born in Belfast, in 1949. A member for the Irish Civil Rights Association ( NICRA), he took part in the IRA delegation which stayed in London, in 1972 negotiating secretly with the British. In the seventies, he was put in a prison several times, and once, he met Bobby Sands in the cell. In 1983 he was appointed as Parliament member for Belfast west district, charge that he occupied until 1993. In these ten years, he could not occupy his seat because he was not allowed to enter the United Kingdom. Unquestionable protagonist of the Irish peace process, Adams has received the powerful Irish American lobby support, being the most obvious reference of a reunifying process which is seen unstoppable today. In Txalaparta, he has published Before the dawn ( 1997) and Towards Ireland freedom ( 1991).
