GERRY ADAMS

The leaders of Britain and Ireland have joined mourners at the funeral of politician David Trimble, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to end decades of violence in Northern Ireland.

David Trimble helped end decades of violence in Northern Ireland by shunning his hardline unionist past and negotiating with a former foe in pursuit of a goal they both shared: Peace.

A hunger strike in which 10 IRA prisoners died was a watershed in the Troubles, says Peter Taylor.

Josu Urrutikoetxea, a former leader of Basque separatist militant group ETA, speaks in Paris, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020. Just because he oversaw ETA’s end in 2018, they stress, that doesn’t erase his past. Survivors of violent attacks and relatives of ETA’s victims say the campaign humiliates them. ETA’s cause was politically and socially divisive inside Spain’s Basque society and widely rejected across the rest of Spain. What I do want is to see him taking the stand in court,” she said, standing at the site of ETA's attack on the Civil Guard.

NEW YORK Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving sibling of President John F. Kennedy and a former ambassador to Ireland, died Wednesday, her daughter confirmed to The New York Times. Smith died at her home in Manhattan, her daughter Kym told the Times. Sen. Edward Kennedy, the youngest of the Kennedy siblings, died of brain cancer in August 2009, the same month their sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver died. Smith, who married Kennedy family financial adviser and future White House chief of staff Stephen Edward Smith in 1956, was viewed for much of her life as a quiet sister who shunned the spotlight. Her son, Dr. William Kennedy Smith, made headlines in 1991, when he was charged with rape at the Kennedy estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

In the "60 Minutes" moment of the week, Scott Pelley presses Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams on the question: Did you ever order a death for the IRA?

Ricky O'Rawe was one of the Catholic IRA members who recorded an oral history for Boston College's Belfast Project. In this clip, he tells Scott Pelley his take on Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams.

The historic 1998 accord stopped the war in Northern Ireland, but Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods are still largely divided. Scott Pelley’s report from the region includes a rare interview with controversial Irish Republican politician Gerry Adams on Sunday, April 5 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

Sinn Fein chief Gerry Adams accused of ordering 1972 killing The leader of the outlawed Irish Republican Army's political wing is under arrest in connection with the notorious murder of Jean McConville more than 40 years ago. CBS News' Elizabeth Palmer reports.

Gerry Adams arrested in connection with 1972 IRA murder Law enforcement authorities in Northern Ireland are questioning politician Gerry Adams about the death of Jean McConville, who was accused by the IRA of being a police informer. Dolours Price, who drove the car the night of the murder, told CBS News Adams ordered the killing. Mark Phillips reports.