Before the Dawn: An Autobiography
Book Details
Author(s)Gerry Adams
PublisherBrandon Books
ISBN / ASIN0863222897
ISBN-139780863222894
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank2,041,130
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Closing in 1981 with the deaths of ten Irish Republican Army hunger strikers in Long Kesh prison, the author chronicles the years before he became president of Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing. Wrenching accounts of the hunger strike and of the 1969 riots in Northern Ireland that turned a 20-year-old bartender into an activist are counterbalanced by the warmth with which Adams portrays his family and comrades, the atmospheric precision with which he evokes the sights and sounds of his West Belfast community. Not the whole truth by any means, but a compelling partisan document.




