Sinn Féin
President Gerry Adams
Sinn Féin was founded in the early twentieth century as a party campaigning for Irish independence. Since then, it has been considered by many to be the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), although party officials strongly deny a link. Since the early 1980s, Sinn Féin has slowly gained political strength in Northern Ireland and was a key party in the negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Gerry Adams was elected president of Sinn Féin in 1983. He has long been an activist for Northern Ireland independence and is rumored to have been actively…
