Martin McGuiness

A presentation

by

Janosch Kunczik

Overview

McGuiness and Ian Paisley

Career in the IRA

Short Biography

Short Biography

- Was born on 23th May 1950 in Derry (Southern Ireland)

- Vistited the Christian Brothers Technical school

- McGuinness married Bernadette Canning in 1974

- Has four children

- Is a Gaelic Football fan

Career in the IRA

- He joined the IRA around 1970

- Was about 20 years old

- Two years later he was second-in-command of the IRA in his hometown Derry

- Held that position on Bloody Sunday

- It's assumed, that he supllied IRA terrorists with detonators for nail bombs for that day

Career in the IRA

- was convicted by the Republic of Ireland's Special Criminal Court in 1973, after being caught with a car containing 250 lb (113 kg) of explosives and nearly 5,000 rounds of ammunition

- went to jail for 6 months

Career in the IRA

- Got famous for his imprisonment in the IRA and its political Wing Sinn Fein

- was elected to a short-lived assembly at Stormont in 1982, representing Londonderry

- As with all elected members of Sinn Féin and the SDLP he did not take up his seat.

- He was subsequently banned from entering Great Britain under the Prevention of Terrorism Act

Career in the IRA

- The Irish Tánaiste Michael McDowell claimed, that Adams was a member in the seven man IRA Army Council – Mcguiness denied the claims

- Peter Taylor pictured Mc Guiness in his documetary as head of the IRA's Northern Command, which has many connections to the Enniskillin Bombing

Career in the IRA

- He became Sinn Féin's chief negotiator

- He became Minister President for Mid Ulster in 1997

- He became Minister for Education

- elected to the Westminster Parliament in 2001 and 2005but refused to take his seat thererefrefusedto take his seat there

Career in the IRA

- Became deputy first Minister under Ian Paisley and later under Peter Robinson

Mc Guiness and Ian Paisley

- Paisleys party DUP and McGuiness Party Sinn Féin were enemies of each other

(Sinn Féin = Catholic / DUP = Protestant)

- The assembly after the St Andrews Agreement nominated Paisley as first Minister and McGuiness as deputy first Minister

- Paisley didn't talk with him for a long time

- later both started a charm offensive; grew together and symbolized an associated Ireland