Adams didn’t trade lives for votes

By Chris Donnelly (for Belfast Telegraph)

It is a historical feature of Irish republicanism that rival factions have vied for the status of legitimate claimants to the republican mantle, utilising republican icons both from the living and deceased in pursuit of that objective.

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