Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Current Affairs, Politics, Irish Unity, History and Culture.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 17 minutes
- Episodes
- 269
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Up The Republic, She Raised The Battle Cry: Kathleen (Largey) Thompson
It is my great privilege to have met many fine women and men over the years. The Léargas series of books is a record of some of these I came to know or to know of along life’s journey. It is very per…
March 1st 1981: A date to remember | The Belfast Hills
A date to remember
Dates can evoke powerful memories for all of us. The birth or death of a loved one; a wedding; a new job; a joyous family occasion or a tragedy. Some memories can be so strong that …
Political Unionism and Operation Fear
So what are we to make of the threats by some Unionist leaders over the Irish Protocol?
Do we ignore them? I think not. Even though we have heard all this all our lives it is too serious to ignore. …
Fly Me To The Moon
Fly Me To The Moon.
I downloaded a new album, Cheek to Cheek, by Tony Bennett and Lady GaGa. It is brilliant. I am a longtime fan of Mr Bennett and in more recent times, Lady GaGa.
Tony Bennett is cel…
Brexit - A Child of the DUP and Anger at attack on victims and survivors
Brexit - A Child of the DUP.
I have been watching the machinations of the DUP over the Article 16 carry on. T
So, what’s it all about? For me it’s very simple. Brexit is a child of the DUP. The DUP wer…
Outrage at attack on Bookies families
On the 5th of February 1992, five people were brutally murdered, with a further seven injured in a massacre carried out by the UDA. Each year the relatives and friends and the local community hol…
Fra McCann's amazing life of struggle; Growing support for a border referendum; Me, Larry King and the SF broadcast ban
Fra McCann's amazing life of struggle
I have known Fra McCann for almost 50 years. Even as he battles prostate cancer Fra continues to live his life as a republican activist – an MLA representing the…
Des Wilson – A Voice for the Poor and Oppressed by Joe McVeigh; The ANC and the 1981 hunger strikers; The storming of the Capitol
Des Wilson – A Voice for the Poor and Oppressed by Joe McVeigh
Fr. Joe McVeigh was a close friend and colleague of Des Wilson. It wasn’t just that both were priests. They both shared a passionate beli…
My 2021 list and the Unity Conversation
Singing and climbing in 2021
A Chairde, a very happy 2021 to you all. Here are ten personal things I want to do in this bright new year.
· Survive the pandemic. Stay alive and stay healthy. Th…
The Government of Ireland Act and Time to end Partition
The Government of Ireland Act was signed into British Law by a British King on 23 December 1920. In 1998 Sinn Féin succeeded in having this act scrapped - I will write about that process and its impl…
Gunboat Diplomacy and the DUP dup-ed again
Nollaig Shona agus athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibhse go leir. I know it’s going to be a strange Christmas. It’s always poignant as we think of absent friends and family but this year especially we thin…
Danny D's new book and 'The Session'
This week's Podcast has its roots in a conversation with Danny D; Rab; & Tomboy.
We were all in Cage 11 with Bobby Sands and recalled his learning the guitar.
I also reflect on the ongoing plight of…
The Economic Benefits of a United Ireland; Remembering Danny Groves; and the Pat Finucane case
Its Gerry Adams here again.
And a very big welcome to you all to this Podcast.
On Friday Sinn Féin published its discussion paper the Economic Benefits of a United Ireland.
It is an exciting contributio…
Solidarity with Palestinian Hunger Striker Remembering Pat McGivern and well done Breanndán O Beaglaoich
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It’s Gerry Adams and in this podcast I want to deal with a number of issues: a hunger strike by a Palestinian prisoner Maher al-Akhras and the success of Breanndán O Beaglaoich
First of all I w…
'Hold and stick to the Republic' The Story of Kevin Barry
Few names from the Tan War 100 years ago are as well known that of Kevin Barry.
His torture and execution by the British at the age of 18 generated huge national and international attention.
His name …
Another part of our history destroyed
My Podcast this week deals with the demolition of Herbert Park in Dublin, the home of the only leader of the 1916 Rising to be killed in action, and the report of the Independent Panel of Inquiry int…
Thank you Chuck Feeney
For those of you who don’t know him or have never heard of him Chuck Feeney is an extraordinary human being whose kindness and vision has brought hope and joy to millions.
Last week he signed the pap…
An Taoiseach Micheál Martin is not a United Irelander
This weeks Podcast is about An Taoiseach Micheál Martin; his failure to address Irish Unity; and questions his Shared Island Unit.
Partition is almost 100 years old. But for democrats across this isla…
Witness Trees
WITNESS TREES.
I used to have an old hard backed copy of Nora Connolly O’Brien’s; ‘Portrait Of A Rebel Father’. This wonderful account of James Connolly’s life, as recalled by his daughter, is a must …
Join the Campaign to Protect Moore Street and the 1916 Battlefield site
This podcast is going to deal with the shameful refusal of successive Irish governments to develop a national monument, a cultural quarter, a revolutionary quarter, a freedom quarter, a 1916 quarter …