17: Gerry Adams: The Troubles, Margaret Thatcher, and the IRA
The Rest Is Politics: Leading
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Terrence O'Neill and the 60s
When I came out of prison, a group of us started to try and reboot Sinn Finh. It wasn't a political organisation in the sense that we now see it. And it's very hard to organise politically when you're underground. At a human level, I'd have some sympathy with Terrence O'Neill but what they were being asked to do was simple, reasonable and modest. The government in London was obsessed with all of this. So this state is a partitioned and no judge has ever seen apartheid state. But the London Parliament is by its own claim, the sovereign Parliament. How could London per seight over a situation where a section of people within the British state was
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