Gerry Adams Calls Irish Americans to Activism

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/27/A_United_Ireland_How_Do_We_Get_There

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams discusses the impact of Irish American activists on U.S. foreign policy towards Ireland, and argues that further support from activists could lead to an end to British rule. "Freedom for the people of Ireland has been a goal for generations of patriots, and I believe that this generation can make that dream a reality," says Adams.

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Gerry Adams is joined by internationally acclaimed actress Fionnoula Flanagan, Chair of the California Democratic Party John Burton, renowned Irish artist Robert Ballagh and noted Irish historian Ruan O'Donnell, head of the History Department of Limerick University.

This was an open forum to encourage dialog about how best to achieve a United Ireland. Members of the audience were encouraged to offer ideas.

Gerry Adams has been President of Sinn Fein since 1983. In 1987 he was instrumental in launching the party's current peace strategy with the publication of the discussion document Scenario for Peace. This was followed in 1992 with the document, Towards a Lasting Peace in Ireland. In 1993 it emerged that Gerry Adams had been holding a series of meetings with the leader of the SDLP, John Hume. From these meetings both leaders agreed a joint position which was to become the Irish Peace Initiative. Throughout the peace process he has worked side by side with Martin McGuinness and the Sinn Fein Leadership to advance the process and in our reach out to unionism. He is centrally involved in the ongoing development of the party as a radical alternative in Irish society. He has traveled internationally to advance the peace process particularly in the United States. He has also campaigned on issues of human rights and justice, including the demand for the cancellation of world debt. A member of PEN, the international guild of writers, Gerry Adams has published several books, including: A Pathway to Peace, The Politics of Irish Freedom and Selected Writings, his autobiography Before the Dawn, and An Irish Voice. His most recent book is Hope and History, Making Peace in Ireland.

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[Technodiq]

Stormont* bastardin phone!

[Technodiq]

Right listen up all you ones living in the free state I've got a plan. We need a good few thousands of ye to live up here for a while right? Next time we vote, we all vote Sinn Fein, and that will lead to a Sinn Fein majority led Storment. That'll open up the possibility of a referendum. Stay up here for a bit more and get voting for a free Ulster, c'mon lads! All fer one and one fer all!

[emptyhead]

@Ballyhook I completely agree. I live in Belfast and it breaks my heart everyday

[Ballyhook]

The brits below me turn my stomach. UNITED IRELAND now and forever

[nickthefox72]

There will never be a united Ireland either despite all the gun money the Americans have sent the terrorists over the years

There is a Protestant majority in northern Ireland and the only way unification would happen would be if there was a referendum in the north. A referendum would never be won!

[nickthefox72]

That ojideadu is exactly right if u don't qualify for a passport you aren't Irish! Sick of Americans crapping in about being Irish just because their great great great grandad was a fucking potato! People born of one nations parents in a different country get dual nationality but really shouldn't. Where u are born is your nationality end of story. So it makes me sick to stomach to see these green river parades in the likes of Chicago with "plastic paddies" celebrating st.patricks day!

[ojideagu]

@CarolineOskarsson That child could claim to be Spanish and Irish. If they choose to. That child could marry a Spanish woman and have Spanish children.

[ojideagu]

@CarolineOskarsson You would still qualify for an Irish passport if a parent was Irish and you are born abroad so you could claim to be Irish. If you don't qualify for a passport then you're not Irish. I am British. That is who is regarded as Irish here, not Americans.

[CarolineOskarsson]

@ojideagu

So if you as an irishman moved to say Spain and had a child with your irish wife there, are your kids spanish even if both there parents are irish?