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Gerard Adams ((アイルランド語:Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh);〔 Sinn Féin press release, 26 January 2004.〕 born 6 October 1948) is an Irish republican politician, president of the Sinn Féin political party, and a Teachta Dála (Member of Parliament) for Louth since the 2011 general election.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mr. Gerry Adams )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gerry Adams )〕 From 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2011, he was an abstentionist Westminster Member of Parliament (MP) for Belfast West. He has been the president of Sinn Féin since 1983. Since that time the party has become the fourth-largest party in the Republic of Ireland, the second-largest political party in Northern Ireland and the largest Irish nationalist party in that region.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sinn Fein tops poll in Euro count )〕 In 1984, Adams was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt by several gunmen from the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) including John Gregg.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/14/newsid_2543000/2543503.stm )〕 From the late 1980s onwards, Adams was an important figure in the Northern Ireland peace process, initially following contact by the then-Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader John Hume and then subsequently with the Irish and British governments. In 2005, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) indicated that its armed campaign was over and that it was exclusively committed to democratic politics. Under Adams, Sinn Féin changed its traditional policy of abstentionism towards the Oireachtas, the Parliament of the Republic of Ireland, in 1986 and later took seats in the power-sharing Northern Ireland Assembly. In 2014, he was arrested for questioning and held for four days by the Police Service of Northern Ireland in connection with the abduction and murder of Jean McConville in 1972.〔(Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams held over Jean McConville murder ), BBC News. Retrieved 30 April 2014.〕〔(Gerry Adams remains in custody over McConville murder ), BBC News, 1 May 2014.〕 He was freed without charge and a file was to be compiled and sent to the Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland.〔http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-27278039 quotes:"A file will be sent to the Public Prosecution Service, police said as he was released. ... The Sinn Féin leader said police had conducted 33 taped interviews and detectives had presented him with old photographs of himself and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and with interviews conducted by people who were "enemies of the peace process". ...At Sunday's press conference, he again said he was innocent of any involvement in her murder." 〕 ==Family background and early life== Adams was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His parents, Gerry Adams, Sr. and Anne Hannaway, came from republican backgrounds. His grandfather, also named Gerry Adams, had been a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) during the Irish War of Independence. Two of Adams's uncles, Dominic and Patrick Adams, had been interned by the governments in Belfast and Dublin. J. Bowyer Bell states in his book, ''The Secret Army''〔J. Bowyer Bell, ''The Secret Army: The IRA 1916'' (Irish Academy Press)〕 that Dominic Adams was a senior figure in the IRA of the mid-1940s. Gerry Adams Sr. joined the IRA at age sixteen. In 1942, he participated in an IRA ambush on a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) patrol but was himself shot, arrested and sentenced to eight years imprisonment. Adams's maternal great-grandfather, Michael Hannaway, was also a member of the IRB during its dynamiting campaign in England in the 1860s and 1870s. Michael's son, Billy, was election agent for Éamon de Valera in 1918 in West Belfast but refused to move south upon the formation of Fianna Fáil. Annie Hannaway was a member of Cumann na mBan, the women's division of the IRA. Three of her brothers (Alfie, Liam, and Tommy) were known IRA members. His cousin Kieran Murphy was abducted and killed by the Ulster Volunteer Force in 1974.〔McKittrick et al, ''Lost Lives'', p. 484〕 Adams attended St Finian's Primary School on the Falls Road where he was taught by La Salle brothers. Having passed the eleven-plus exam in 1960, he attended St Mary's Christian Brothers Grammar School. He left St Mary's with six O-levels and became a barman. He was increasingly involved in the Irish republican movement, joining Sinn Féin and Fianna Éireann in 1964, after being radicalised by the Divis Street riots during that year's general election campaign. In 1971, Adams married Collette McArdle,〔''The Independent'', 10 April 2006〕 with whom he has one son, Gearoid (born 1973)〔,〕 who has played football for Antrim GAA and served as assistant manager in 2012.〔(Adams declares Antrim interest ) HoganStand, 2012-09-05.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gerry Adams」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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