Martin McGuinness
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 6 years ago |
Date of birth | May 23,1950 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Bogside |
Date of died | March 21,2017 |
Died | Altnagelvin Area Hospital |
Buried | Derry City Cemetery, Derry, United Kingdom |
Spouse | Bernadette Canning |
Siblings | Paul McGuinness |
Tom McGuinness | |
Height | 183 (cm) |
Full name | James Martin Pacelli McGuinness |
Children | Fionnuala McGuinness |
Fiachra McGuinness | |
Grainne McGuinness | |
Emmet McGuinness | |
Party | Sinn Féin |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 406984 |
Martin McGuinness Life story
James Martin Pacelli McGuinness was an Irish republican politician and statesman for Sinn Féin and a leader within the Provisional Irish Republican Army during The Troubles. McGuinness was the deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland from May 2007 to January 2017.
Oxford split over Kathleen Stock's invite to Union debate
... It has also drawn controversy, having extended invites to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Sinn Fein s Martin Mcguinness and French far-right former politician Marion Marechal-LePen...
Trevelyan descendant 'would consider' Irish famine compensation
... Ms Trevelyan told BBC Radio Ulster s that the Fields Of Athenry had been sung at her, and she had been directly challenged about her family link to the famine by Sinn Fein s Martin Mcguinness in the 1990s...
Good Friday Agreement: Get Stormont up and running, Sunak tells unionists
... She referred to the role of former DUP leader Ian Paisley and his friendship with Martin Mcguinness as " one of the miracles" of the Good Friday Agreement...
Stakeknife: Who was Army's top IRA spy Freddie Scappaticci?
... He denied it and left Northern Ireland a year later when a recording surfaced of him talking to journalists about senior republicans, including Martin Mcguinness...
Good Friday Agreement: Who wants to tell the 'truth' about NI's past?
... What is the point of building a house if no-one will buy it? I once thought out loudly about how much more we would learn about and understand the conflict years had we been able to create a process, in which people like Flanagan and the republican leader Martin Mcguinness would have been able to speak frankly...
Good Friday Agreement: Gerry Adams praises David Trimble's peace bravery
... Mr Adams said: " I remember Martin Mcguinness and I driving, or being driven, up that famous sort of thoroughfare and past the statue and saying to Martin, you know we re going to have to go in there some day, we need a space to moderate our differences ...
MI5 spy reveals secret 'unauthorised' IRA talks
... Senior republicans Martin Mcguinness and Gerry Kelly were at the meeting, representing the leadership of the IRA and Sinn Fein...
Timeline of dissident republican activity
... April 2013Sinn Fein says police warn Deputy First Minister Martin Mcguinness of a renewed threat from dissident republicansPolice investigating dissident republican activity seize contraband cigarettes worth £300,000 in south Armagh...
Gerry Adams' IRA's denial 'a lie', says veteran Republican
The former Sinn Féin President has always denied that a member of the Provisional IRA
A veteran of the Republican party, which helped the Provisional IRA, said Gerry Adams was a member of the organization and described his denial as "a lie".
The Long given, in an interview with BBC Spotlight as part of his series on the problems.
He claimed that he attended meetings of The Ira 's ruling Executive Board, with Mr. Adams, who was there as "Chairman of the army council".
Mr. Adams has always maintained he was never in The Ira .
Mr. Long, the accusation is made, in part two of a spotlight on The difficulties: A Secret History , which charts The Ira 's campaign of violence through the 1970s.
He said: "The Chairman of The army Council would, in turn, to the executive meetings. We met at least every four months. "
When you are asked who the President was, he replied: "Gerry Adams . "
Mr Long, was one of the founding members of the Provisional IRAIt was then that the former Sinn Féin President has repeatedly denied, ever in The Ira .
He replied: "I was sitting opposite him at the meetings. This lie he comes up with, he was never in The Ira , that is a lie.
"I'll probably be shot for saying it, but I'll say it. "
Mr Long fell out with Mr Adams in the year 1986 as part of a larger division of the republicanism.
Martin Mcguinness and Gerry Adams at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis in 1985The program Secret Army intelligence documents, lays in addition, the state, Mr. Adams was a leading figure in The Ira .
Lord Ramsbotham, a former commander of the army in Northern Ireland , said Mr Adams was "a strategic planner of the highest order". to participate
Mr Adams, a TD for Louth,
He refused, in the Spotlight program.
Sinn Fein 's Conor Murphy dismissed the comments Of the Long, the seen he called a "fierce opponent of Gerry Adams , for 35 years (who) would (Adams) as a traitor".
"were made The allegations over The Years and have been consistently denied," Mr Murphy told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.
"you have to see to the people, the accusations, what is your motivation. "
Episode Two spotlight on the difficulties: A Secret History Tuesday, 17 are shown. September, at 21:00 BST on Bbc One Northern Ireland Bbc Four . Episode One can be viewed now on the Bbc Iplayer .
sinn féin, ira, gerry adams, the troubles
Source of news: bbc.com