I only want to keep my hand in
Owen Bennett-Jones: Gerry Adams, 16 November 2017
Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life
by Malachi O’Doherty.
Faber, 356 pp., £14.99, September 2017,978 0 571 31595 6 Show More
by Malachi O’Doherty.
Faber, 356 pp., £14.99, September 2017,
“... from a young age he was directing the struggle rather than participating in it. An anecdote in Malachi O’Doherty’s book has it that, within the IRA, Adams was teased for his lack of fighting experience. ‘A man was giving a lecture on the workings of an AK47 and people were surprised to see Gerry there and asked him why he had come and he ... ”
