Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams

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  Anger Is Not A Strategy! Thoughts on the Unity Agenda | Meeting Friends of Sinn Féin International 20.08.2026 11λ

  Anger Is Not A Strategy! Monday’s Irish Times has an editorial dealing with the possibility of the collapse of the Northern Assembly at Stormont. This is the latest media driven piece of speculation in recent weeks – based on nothing other than the view of the authors - that Sinn Féin plans to bring down the Executive and Assembly. No evidence is presented to support this opinion. Thoughts on the Unity Agenda Declan Kearney has published a timely piece in An Phoblacht - Time for a Ne...
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  The Féile and the Fleadh | The Little Lost Bird and the Blue Butterfly | Wildfires and Climate Change 13.08.2026 13λ

  The Féile and the Fleadh Following on from Tradfest - well done Dónal and everyone involved- Féile and the Fleadh were mighty. Sixteen days of Féile An Phobail, seperate but running parallel with a week of the first Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann to be held in Belfast. An estimated one million plus Fleadh hoppers meandered their way through Belfast soaking up the music, the craic and the joyful atmosphere as musicians and dancers playing their hearts out on streets and in pubs an...
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  Choosing the Struggle by Martina Anderson | Women's Voices, Hopes for the Future | Mary Doherty 06.08.2026 12λ

  Choosing the Struggle by Martina Anderson Last Saturday a packed St. Mary’s gave a huge welcome to Martina Anderson who was launching her personal and hugely important autobiography – Choosing the Struggle. This is an honest and heartfelt account of Martina growing up in Derry, her experience of poverty, witnessing the excesses of the British Army and RUC and the injustice of the northern state, and deciding to take a stand against these by joining the Irish Republican Army. It is wonderfully...
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  The Re-Conquest of Ireland | Gerry Kelly | No Place for Armed Groups 30.07.2026 22λ

  The Re-Conquest of Ireland Well done Mayo in the all-Ireland football final. Commiserations to Kerry. Both teams played their hearts out but in the end Mayo were worthy winners. Next month on August 30 I will be in Ballina, Mayo for the 45th anniversary of the 10 hunger strikers who died during the 1981 hunger strike. The event will also remember the three Mayo Hunger Strikers, Jack McNeela (1940), Michael Gaughan (1974) and Frank Stagg, (1976). 22 Republican prisoners died on hunger s...
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  Special Episode: In Conversation with Stiofán Ó Nualláin | Trademark 26.07.2026 46λ
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  Andy Burnham | ‘Women’s Voices, Hopes for a New Ireland’ | Water Crisis in Gaza | Rubber Bullet injures Marwan Barghouti | Methodism and the Peace Process 23.07.2026 18λ

  Andy Burnham As I conclude this column on Monday afternoon Andy Burnham is taking up his position as British Prime Minister. As I dispatch these lines he is addressing the media and supporters outside 10 Downing Street. I wish him well. I also hope he will be the last British Prime Minister to interfere in Irish affairs. Our ambition is for the people of Ireland to govern ourselves. As soon as possible. When that happens we will govern Ireland in the interests of Ireland. Mr Burnham, like eve...
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  Another step in the right direction | Irish Republicanism & ‘The Gays’ Exhibition | Moore St. should be bought by the Government | The Glorious Twelfth.  16.07.2026 13λ

  Another step in the right direction The decision by Micheál Martin last week to oppose Sinn Féin’s “Planning for Constitutional Change Bill 2026” was no real surprise. His opposition to any meaningful planning for Irish Unity has been transparently obvious for many years. Despite Fine Gael spokespersons declaring that Fine Gael would not oppose the Sinn Féin Bill they then chose to support An Taoiseach. No surprise there. Simon Harris is Tánaiste to Micheál Martin’s Taoiseach. For Fine Gael t...
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  Unionism and Unity | National Hunger Strike Commemoration for Mayo | ‘Our Chains will be Broken before we Are’ – Marwan Barghouti | A Thousand Days of Genocide 09.07.2026 17λ

  Unionism and Unity This week significant developments that can shape the future direction of constitutional politics on this island are taking place in Leinster House. On Tuesday Sinn Féin’s Bill setting out a practical plan to achieve a united Ireland is up for discussion. Fine Gael is moving ahead with its plan for a blueprint for Irish Unity for November. And other parties, including the Social Democrats and Labour have expressed their support for Unity and notwithstanding Micheál Martin’s...
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  Momentum around Unity Grows | Sign the Petition for Moore St. | Tá fáilte romhaibh - Féile an Phobail Abú | Seomra Máire Drumm 02.07.2026 15λ

  Momentum around Unity Grows I want to begin by commending the SDLP for organising last week’s conference – The Future of these Islands: Preparing for Change. It was a well-attended day-long event, held in Belfast, on the issue of Irish Unity. Among those who contributed to the series of discussions was Dublin Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan, former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Sinn Féin’s Conor Murphy and others, including leading figures in the SDLP like the party leader Claire Hanna. Add th...
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  The Unity Bill passes its First stage |Clodagh Good| The Arts in a New Ireland | Slán 25.06.2026 18λ

  The Unity Bill passes its First stage The “Planning for Constitutional Change Bill 2026”, which I referenced in last week’s column, has passed its first hurdle in the Dáil. It will now go to second stage on 7 July and then on to the Committee stage before returning to the Dáil later in the year. The Bill sets clear goals and timetables for measures that have to be taken to properly plan and prepare for constitutional change on the island of Ireland. It does so in accordance with the provision...
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  Stand-Up to Racism | Momentum Building Around Unity | Seeking the Truth: Pat Finucane 18.06.2026 16λ

  Stand-Up to Racism The bullet holes from the August 1969 sectarian pogrom against the people of the Falls area are still visible on the front wall of St. Comgall’s Primary School, Divis Street. Last Thursday lunchtime, a few yards from where, on that occasion, whole terraces of houses were burned out, scores of community activists from across Belfast came together in Ionad Eileen Howell to discuss another pogrom. This time the pogrom was rooted in violent racism. In the days before fam...
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  In conversation with Ard Mhéara Bhéal Feirste Róis Máire Donnelly 14.06.2026 31λ

  This podcast with Roís- Máire was recorded shortly after the horrific stabbing incident in North Belfast and before the racist pogroms which followed. It was also before the PSNI warned the Belfast Ard Mheara that her life was in danger. It has been a difficult week especially for those citizens evicted from their homes. We stand in solidarity with them. Racism is the first cousin of sectarianism. The majority of people are opposed to both these negative evils. Elon Musk and other...
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  An Open Letter to my Orange Neighbours | Bodenstown | Cupla Focal Eile. 11.06.2026 22λ

  A Chairde, As June heads towards July the distant beat of your drums is pounding out their rhythm. The marching season for all of the Loyal Orders is well underway and the 12 July is fast approaching. One July, sitting during yet another negotiation, into the early hours with Tony Blair the ratatat of Lambegs sundered the quiet. We paused as he asked if I knew what that was. Yes ,I replied that’s the Orangemen. “Jungle drums?” he said. I am minded to remind you that the Battle of the B...
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  Unionism and the Future | Stop the Game | Róis-Máire Donnelly - A Ballymurphy Woman 04.06.2026 19λ

  Unionism and the Future Last week, at a meeting of the Executive the DUP chose to block the Good Jobs Bill. Why did they do this? The Bill will be good for all workers. It makes no distinction based on religion, politics, ethnicity or gender. Workers who vote unionist would benefit as much from this Bill as would workers who vote nationalist or for neither of these. The legislation, being proposed by Caoimhe Archibald, the Minister for the Economy, contains common sense measures making...
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  Gaelscoil na Móna – Looking to the Future | Did you enjoy the good weather? | A Slap in the Face to Palestinians 28.05.2026 17λ

  A few weeks after the Good Friday Agreement was agreed in April 1998 I brought a delegation of the Board of Governors of Bunscoil Phobail Feirste, on the Shaws Road in west Belfast, to meet the British Secretary of State Mo Mowlam. I asked for the meeting after the Department of Education had again denied funding to the school for the construction of permanent school buildings. The Department had just announced a £33 million schools building programme which excluded Irish medium schools and n...
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  Cúpla Focal. | Fianna Fáil – A centenary of failure | Britain’s shameful role in the Nakba 21.05.2026 16λ

  Cúpla Focal I often quote the late Seán Mac Goill. Seán was one of the visionaries who gave us the new Bombay Street after the pogroms of 1969, the urban Gaeltacht on Bóthar Seoighe, The Andersonstown News and many other outstanding projects going back to the 1960s. Seán and his peers and their families were immersed in the Irish language and the wider cultural revolution across Belfast. It was they who laid the foundations for today’s revival and successes. Seán’s name is immortalised in the...
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  Special Episode: In Conversation with Author Gerard Shannon 17.05.2026 1ώ 1λ

  In conversation with Gerard Shannon on his new book ‘Rory O'Connor: To Defend the Republic’ Available to buy in An fhuiseog.ie
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  The Disunited Kingdom | The Irish Language and Irish Unity | Marwan Barghouti – A Resolute Defender of Freedom 14.05.2026 15λ

  The Disunited Kingdom At the time of writing this week’s column Keir Starmer is still the Leader of the British Labour Party and Prime Minister. On Monday he delivered a ‘Save Keir Starmer’ speech which may or may not work for him. Can he survive the voices of opposition within Labour? That is a matter for his party. The reality is that his leadership of Labour and its success in the 2024 general election had little to do with Starmer and more to do with voters’ deep antipathy toward the Cons...
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  Springhill Heroes |Tiocfaidh ár lá | Free Marwan Bargouti 07.05.2026 13λ

  Springhill Heroes When I was a wee buck growing up in Ballymurphy there was a river at the back of the houses across from our home place at the corner of Glenalina Road and Divismore Park. The river ran the length of our street and the length of Ballymurphy Road before exiting below the Whiterock Road and into the City Cemetery. From there it meanders down to and under the Falls Road beside the Bus Depot and onwards to the Bog Meadows. You can see it there to this day. The stretch which...
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  Standing at the crossroads | International Solidarity | Honouring Rita O’Hare | Remembering Bobby Sands 30.04.2026 12λ

  Standing at the crossroads Sinn Féin, but especially, the party in Belfast pulled out all of the stops at the weekend to ensure that the Ard Fheis was a huge success. The ICC Waterfront Hall was buzzing with republican voices from across our island and beyond talking about the big issues confronting all of us nationally and internationally. The number of young people attending and taking part in the debates was particularly encouraging. There were 167 Motions on the clár for discussion. They ...