However, authors such as Ed Moloney, Peter Taylor, Mark Urban and historian Richard English have all named Adams as part of the IRA leadership since the 1970s.

In 1978, Gerry Adams became joint vice-president of Sinn Féin and a key figure in directing a challenge to the Sinn Féin leadership of President Ruairí Ó Brádaigh and joint vice-president Dáithí Ó Conaill.

Adams served as its first and only " Premier ", but his leadership failed in attempts to form similar unions, and his continued defence of the monarchy was used by his opponents as evidence that he was no longer in touch with the needs of his country.

" High Federalists " considered Adams too moderate and would have preferred the leadership of Alexander Hamilton instead.

In 1986 " a delegation from the Adams leadership " asked for his support, but Maguire rejected them.

A number of works by American composer John Adams were premiered and recorded by the SFS under de Waart's leadership, and Harmonium was also released with Adams conducting.

Harvard Board of Overseers member Mitchell L. Adams said, “ This is an extraordinary moment in Harvard ’ s history and in the history of this rapidly emerging field ... And because of Harvard ’ s leadership in academia and the world, this gift will foster continued progress toward a more inclusive society .”

The street demonstrations originated from the leadership of respectable public leaders such as James Otis who commanded the Boston Gazette and Samuel Adams of the " Loyal Nine " of the Boston Caucus, an organization of Boston merchants.

For Adams, Mill's Considerations on Representative Government showed the necessity of an enlightened, moral, and intelligent elite to provide leadership to a government elected by the masses and subject to demagoguery, ignorance, and corruption.

" His years in London led Adams to conclude that he could best provide that knowledgeable and conscientious leadership by working as a correspondent and journalist.

This awakened the Sinn Féin leadership under Gerry Adams to the possible gains they could make in future elections and by a political, as distinct from " military ", strategy.

Under the leadership of Bowdoin and Samuel Adams, the legislature enacted a Riot Act, suspended habeas corpus, and passed a bill that unsuccessfully attempted to address the financial reasons for the protests.

Adams left UUNET after transitioning leadership of the company to John Sidgmore in 1994.

" In 2010 Adams resigned from the ALP after the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, lost the prime ministership at the Australian Labor Party leadership election.

Soon, Young and Adams, who began to assume leadership of the community and help the women and children as much as possible, drifted apart from Quintal and McCoy, particularly after McCoy discovered how to brew alcohol from a local plant.

In the aftermath of the 1975 Truce, the Ó Brádaigh / Ó Conaill leadership came under severe criticism from a younger generation of activists from Northern Ireland, headed by Gerry Adams, who became a vice-president of Sinn Féin in 1978.

Under Adams ’ leadership, the Colored Industrial and Agricultural School opened on November 1, 1901.

In March 2012, a face transplant was completed at the University of Maryland Medical Center and R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center under the leadership of plastic surgeon Eduardo Rodriguez, DDS, MD and his team ( Amir Dorafshar MBChB, Michael Christy MD, Branko Bojovic MD, Daniel Borsuk MD ).

The Massachusetts committee had its headquarters in Boston and under the leadership of Adams became a model for other radical groups.

Young's health became progressively worse and eventually he died of asthma, but Adams continued his work of educating the women and children, taking control over leadership of the island, and lived to see the island rediscovered by American and British ships.

In February 2005, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Michael McDowell, using parliamentary privilege, named Ferris, as well as Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, as members of the IRA Army Council, an allegation that has been flatly denied by Ferris and the Sinn Féin leadership.

Under the leadership of Headmaster Haguewood and Chairman of the Board Ben Adams ( 1996-2004 ), MUS implemented a long-term strategic plan.

Not long after, Stevie Ray won the leadership role in a 4-man battle royal on the April 5, 1999 edition of WCW Monday Nitro, defeating Horace Hogan, Brian Adams, and Vincent.

Maguire had also been contacted by supporters of Gerry Adams, then and now President of Sinn Féin, and a supporter of the change in the Provisional IRA constitution.

Sinn Féin vice-president Gerry Adams said of Mountbatten's death:

When he declared to the House of Commons in November 1993 that " to sit down and talk with Mr. Adams and the Provisional IRA ... would turn my stomach ", Sinn Féin gave the media an outline of the secret talks indeed held regularly since that February.

* 1984 – Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.

Donaldson had been entrusted by Gerry Adams with the running of Sinn Féin's operations in the U. S. in the early 1990s.

This came as Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams admitted one of the men was the party's representative in Cuba.

* March 14 – Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams and 3 others are seriously injured in a gun attack by the UVF.

Under Adams, Sinn Féin changed its traditional policy of abstentionism towards Oireachtas Éireann, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland, in 1986 and later took seats in the power-sharing Northern Ireland Assembly.

Adams was active in Sinn Féin at this time, siding with the Provisionals in the split of 1970.

Even after the election of Bobby Sands as MP for Fermanagh / South Tyrone, a part of the mass mobilization associated with the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike by republican prisoners in the H blocks of the Maze prison ( known as Long Kesh by Republicans ), Adams was cautious about the level of political involvement by Sinn Féin.

The 1982 election was followed by the 1983 Westminster election, in which Sinn Féin's vote increased and Gerry Adams was elected, as an abstentionist, as MP for Belfast West.

It was in 1983 that Ruairí Ó Brádaigh resigned as President of Sinn Féin and was succeeded by Gerry Adams.

Adams continued to adhere to this claim of republican political legitimacy until quite recently — however, in his 2005 speech to the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis he explicitly rejected it.

Over time, Adams and others pointed to Republican electoral successes in the early and mid-1980s, when hunger strikers Bobby Sands and Kieran Doherty were elected to the British House of Commons and Dáil Éireann respectively, and they advocated that Sinn Féin become increasingly political and base its influence on electoral politics rather than paramilitarism.

Sinn Féin continued its policy of refusing to sit in the Westminster Parliament even after Adams won the Belfast West constituency.

Under Adams, Sinn Féin appeared to move away from being a political voice of the Provisional IRA to becoming a professionally organised political party in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Adams remains the President of Sinn Féin.

* Gerry Adams Sinn Féin profile

On Monday 26 March 2007, the date of the British Government deadline for devolution or dissolution, Paisley led a DUP delegation to a meeting with a Sinn Féin delegation led by Gerry Adams, which agreed on a DUP proposal that the executive would be established on 8 May.

and a later Prime Minister John Howard refused to meet Gerry Adams from Sinn Féin on a visit to Australia in 2000.

On 20 January 2011, Gerry Adams submitted a letter of resignation to the Speaker, but did not apply for a Crown office, which would be politically unacceptable for a Sinn Féin politician.

After announcing his intention to resign from the United Kingdom Parliament in order to stand in the 2011 Irish general election, Sinn Féin MP Gerry Adams was appointed Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead.