A public address by Gerry Adams

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  • A public address by Gerry Adams
    Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 08:00PM
    More video info at iop.harvard.edu/node/1846

Komentáře • 189

  • @adamowen6226
    @adamowen6226 Před 10 měsíci +5

    Gerry Adams is a great orator and leader. Tiocfaidh ár lá 🇮🇪

  • @derekfraser3379
    @derekfraser3379 Před 3 lety +14

    Great orator , Gerry Adams.

    • @ATLmodK
      @ATLmodK Před rokem

      At the end he apologized for having a migraine while speaking. Wow, I have those and can’t speak as well on my best days

  • @ATLmodK
    @ATLmodK Před rokem +4

    Gerry Adams is the person, living or dead, with whom I would most like to have a conversation. In addition my daughter received her MA from this institution. So glad I found this video.

    • @ATLmodK
      @ATLmodK Před rokem +1

      @@monty0289 you are not reading what I said. I said that there were people in the IRA who were unhappy that the military actions of the IRA were ceased without the final outcome of subduing the British to the point of causing the British to withdraw from all activities in Northern Ireland. These people are, in my opinion, ridiculously (to use your word) unrealistic. They still exist and from time to time cause needless damage. They hate Gerry Adams as much as you do. I decided that you were of one opinion and not interested in a debate but hoping that you could just insult me and denigrate any nationalists or innocent victim of collusion during the troubles so I deleted my texts as I saw you had either deleted your own or CZcams had removed them.

    • @ATLmodK
      @ATLmodK Před rokem

      @@monty0289 By the way, did you listen to the speech Mr.Adams gave that these comments are attached to.? You seem to assume that I am ignorant of events that occurred in Irish history but I won’t make an assumption that your only interest in this foreign policy speech in the United States was to show me how angry you are that, after considerable study of events in 20th century Ireland and Northern Ireland, I believe Gerry Adams accomplished a lot for the safety of all those i n Northern Ireland.

    • @ATLmodK
      @ATLmodK Před rokem

      @@monty0289I am fully aware that the IRA committed atrocities. I believe their actions were not only cruel, and caused suffering among innocent people in Northern Ireland, but that they rarely had an understandable military objective. I believe that the Omagh bomb for instance had only the purpose of disrupting the peace process but served no objective. The perpetrators of that event wanted only to keep on bombing and killing with the unrealistic intent of subduing the British perhaps which of course was not possible. Instead of taking two or three words I say out of context and trying to make me answer for something I did not say or intend to say, I would be grateful if you actually read all that I said so that you can understand my meaning.

  • @TodayFreedom
    @TodayFreedom Před 2 lety +7

    Videos such as this are crucial documents of the history of the Troubles. I’m glad it’s been uploaded but it really should’ve been put online much sooner.

    • @davemckeown7629
      @davemckeown7629 Před 22 dny

      It's a real pity there are numerous lies in it and dialogue was always an alternative to violence. That's what we are told now by SF.

  • @ciaran3629
    @ciaran3629 Před 4 měsíci

    Fantastic Military Technician and political wunderkind long live Gerry ❤

  • @davidegan8076
    @davidegan8076 Před rokem

    What yr is this?

  • @reginaosullivan5146
    @reginaosullivan5146 Před 2 lety +3

    Devolution of power delivered us to the center of the heart ❤ if we pull it from the left it will kill us if we pull it from the right it will kill us🤔💔

    • @NorthernIrelandBob
      @NorthernIrelandBob Před 2 lety

      Sorry not getting it🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

    • @reginaosullivan5146
      @reginaosullivan5146 Před 2 lety +1

      @@NorthernIrelandBob honest hearts produce honest actions its hard to get it

    • @NorthernIrelandBob
      @NorthernIrelandBob Před 2 lety

      @@reginaosullivan5146
      I don’t know you and I’m sorry to judge but I think it’s very naive to think that your “honest heart” theory will work. Your heart can be as “honest” as you like but that doesn’t help if people such as the IRA are killing you and trying to force you in to relinquishing your citizenship!

    • @reginaosullivan5146
      @reginaosullivan5146 Před 2 lety +1

      @@NorthernIrelandBob you have nothing to be sorry about Robert the only person that can judge me is me myself my wish for you is to find a peaceful solution on your journey

  • @angelmatos9143
    @angelmatos9143 Před rokem +4

    Gerry Adams is a miracle of the political world.

    • @CRAWFORD147
      @CRAWFORD147 Před 10 měsíci

      Even the irish republic who he claimed he was supporting him didnt want him...evil evil man...even Martin maguinness became best friends with Paisley. Adams was encripted for years on public tv because he was a great speaker and liar and the uneducated were sucked in by him...IRA commander and evil man

  • @kellieeverts8462
    @kellieeverts8462 Před 2 lety

    No one can take that away

  • @angelmatos9143
    @angelmatos9143 Před rokem

    With 3 Nobel Prizes in Literature, there's an underlying intellectual current in Ireland that has my admiration as a person from the other side of the world. Their search for peace is difficult & admirable.

  • @kellieeverts8462
    @kellieeverts8462 Před 2 lety +1

    Need business with trade...which builds exchange ...good measures are always well recieved

  • @patrickferran1678
    @patrickferran1678 Před 10 měsíci

    What a great Republican icon he showed great leadership to the Republican movement. 😎😎😎

  • @kellieeverts8462
    @kellieeverts8462 Před 2 lety +2

    I believe Ireland already united

  • @kellieeverts8462
    @kellieeverts8462 Před 2 lety

    Talking is a mediate space

  • @user-qx8bk3vx2g
    @user-qx8bk3vx2g Před 5 měsíci

    Is their a differance between the old ira and todays ira

  • @CRAWFORD147
    @CRAWFORD147 Před 10 měsíci

    great decepter from the truth

  • @kellieeverts8462
    @kellieeverts8462 Před 2 lety

    What follws from that is what it is

  • @kellieeverts8462
    @kellieeverts8462 Před 2 lety

    As what is Granted

  • @kirstinetermansen2213
    @kirstinetermansen2213 Před 2 lety +1

    Optain peace, is as native , to talk , until peace is established, no Time limited,

  • @davidegan8076
    @davidegan8076 Před rokem

    How to teach history? Ah tell the truth! Obviously

  • @davidravenscroft9235
    @davidravenscroft9235 Před rokem

    Pity Michael Stone wasn't in the audience!!!!!

    • @patrickferran1678
      @patrickferran1678 Před 10 měsíci +1

      He's a clown. Gerry Adams is a great leader and a Republican icon. Why did the loyalist and British surrender. Lest we forget. 😎😎😎

    • @davidravenscroft9235
      @davidravenscroft9235 Před 10 měsíci

      A paid agent of the British Army.....fact

    • @davemckeown7629
      @davemckeown7629 Před 22 dny

      The British are still in Northern Ireland. I think you'll find the IRA surrendered as they knew they would not succeed.

  • @kellieeverts8462
    @kellieeverts8462 Před 2 lety

    Any county may be emulated as long as it isn't lead...to hell whith a fester that rabid

  • @kirstinetermansen2213
    @kirstinetermansen2213 Před 2 lety +1

    Noone wants war,.

  • @greigferguson9734
    @greigferguson9734 Před 7 měsíci

    Free palestine - Tiocfaidh ár lá. Up the Celtic

  • @Horizon344
    @Horizon344 Před rokem +4

    11:31 Revolutionary Republicanism is about the pursuit of political power thru violence.
    11:40 There is no "British rule" in Ireland to seek "freedom" from.
    15:09 There wasn't a military stalemate in Ulster in the early 1990's, the P-IRA was facing military defeat by Crown Forces & rejection by the Irish people who were vocally turning against its murder campaign in large numbers.
    15:48 The involvement of the North Americans in PIRA's disbandment was no more than diplomatic window-dressing to allow Republican terrorism to leave the stage with the pretense of dignity, it wasn't essential in any way.
    19:13 The DUP was a political hard-line democratic movement that formed in opposition to the IRA's political violence, by an Ulster Scottish population that was under attack.
    25:32: There was no "British occupation" in Ulster in the 1970's, & there was a democratic option for Sinn Fein to pursue its beliefs peacefully, but it chose not to do it, favouring political violence instead.
    32:39 The problem isn't Irish division, it's Irish vs Ulster Scots division. The omission of the existence of the Ulster Scots here shows the fundamental blinkeredness of this statement & its supporting philosophy.
    33:14 Note how involvement from North American politicians is earlier referred to approvingly, whereas involvement from London is "outside interference".
    33:42 Ulster's place in the British Kingdom is based upon democratic right.

    • @bdenbhurrito
      @bdenbhurrito Před rokem +1

      You sure packed a lot of lies in there didn’t you

    • @niallsheehan474
      @niallsheehan474 Před 10 měsíci +1

      NI is not Ulster the three counties of Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan contained too many nationalists and were left out so the British could have their sectarian headcount well in their favour. NI is just six wee counties that were amongst the most prosperous on the Island at the time of partition and are now amongst the poorest.

  • @Huumf
    @Huumf Před 5 měsíci

    Lo the wheezing at the start 😂

  • @irishguy9311
    @irishguy9311 Před 2 lety +6

    Irish Americans are the best Irish people on the Planet!!!😎👍🏻🍀🇮🇪🇺🇸💯

    • @artetas-army5982
      @artetas-army5982 Před rokem +4

      Na bi ag caint American le do thoil

    • @cianw2942
      @cianw2942 Před 11 měsíci

      Actual Irish people people are better

  • @emcg1236
    @emcg1236 Před 2 lety +1

    Susperb.

  • @stephennoble
    @stephennoble Před 2 lety +1

    The man is a lier.

  • @petermccabe7026
    @petermccabe7026 Před rokem

    Jean mcconville

  • @NorthernIrelandBob
    @NorthernIrelandBob Před 2 lety +6

    The Protestants that remained in the south after partition have been slowly eradicated from “Irish” society!
    We saw what happened during the troubles, Protestant farmers on the border were murdered and intimidated off their properties, which were subsequently taken over by Catholic farmers, classic ethnic cleansing.
    I am no stranger to loss, I had many friends die during the troubles but as an Ulsterman I would rather go down fighting than go out on my knees !

    • @irishguy9311
      @irishguy9311 Před 2 lety

      I served in the Irish Defence Forces with lots of “Protestant” Irish men, most were Officers good people no big deal… Religion is nonsense, and again it’s nonsense to not like people because of their religion (yep thats sectarianism)…

    • @ruairijoseph
      @ruairijoseph Před 2 lety +1

      That’s your narrative and you’re entitled to it. You don’t speak for Protestants in Southern Ireland… this nonsense about going down fighting… I bet you’ll leave it to kids to do the fighting for you and fill up some more prisons all over again. Time for some grownup thinking Robert… Demographics will sort this all out very soon… ask Nigel Dodds in North Belfast to explain that for you.

    • @garyhutton2654
      @garyhutton2654 Před 2 lety +5

      I'm from a nationalist background I don't want anyone on their knees , my family is mixed English and Irish I wish you kindness and hope want United Ireland that means United people 🇮🇪🇬🇧

    • @NorthernIrelandBob
      @NorthernIrelandBob Před 2 lety +1

      @@garyhutton2654
      I appreciate the kind words but the reality is I fear for the Protestant community in a Republic. You just need to see some of the comments here about “planters” and “loyalists” to see the enmity towards us!
      I believe our life would me made hell in an all Ireland!

    • @garyhutton2654
      @garyhutton2654 Před 2 lety

      @@NorthernIrelandBob Dear sir, the Irish Fenians were formed by the Protestant church goers ie church of Ireland and the majority were from a British background in Ireland and Presbyterian for example Leopold Wolf Tone a Presbyterian ? Very nationalist knows this it's not a secret . You saw the BREXIT debate all farmers of whatever side loathed it . You are my friend so to speak . Don't be fooled by all the the process of United I'm a halfer can't help that . My uncles and cousins are from Portsmouth in the navy . If one one Irishman be they Irish or British be harmed them then it's over ! Happy Christmas dear friend

  • @NorthernIrelandBob
    @NorthernIrelandBob Před 2 lety +6

    Words are cheap!!
    Republicans will never accommodate Ulster Protestants/Unionists!

    • @TodayFreedom
      @TodayFreedom Před 2 lety +9

      Protestants have been part of the Irish independence movement for over 250 years. The Irish Protestant community is officially recognised in the Irish Flag. Protestantism has never been the issue at all, and as time passes it becomes even less an issue. A United Ireland will come, but it will come in time and without any more violence. We’ve had enough. If nobody in your family has been murdered in this horrific campaign then you really don’t know what the pain is like.

    • @smoozerish
      @smoozerish Před 2 lety +4

      Absolute nonsense. W.B Yeats is one of our most celebrated historical figures and he was a protestant.

    • @NorthernIrelandBob
      @NorthernIrelandBob Před 2 lety

      @@smoozerish oh yeah ONE famous person!
      The Protestant population in your republic has diminished since partition.
      Classic ethnic cleansing !

    • @conorledwith530
      @conorledwith530 Před 2 lety

      Very ignorant and offensive remark, You idiot

    • @NorthernIrelandBob
      @NorthernIrelandBob Před 2 lety

      @@conorledwith530
      Typical republican, the truth hurts