The The Negotiators Cookbook – Best Kept Secret of the Irish Peace Process: Leabhar Cóicearachta an Idirbheartaithe - An rún is mó as an phróiseas síochána.

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Adams and other Sinn Féin representatives have to regularly go through additional searches and scrutiny when travelling to and from the US. Gerry Adams denies he was consulted on what he calls an alleged IRA army council decision or that he had any final say in the matter being sanctioned. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters

Gerry Adams with the Sinn Féin deputy leader, Mary Lou McDonald, who is tipped as the candidate most likely to succeed him as leader. Photograph: Niall Carson/PADonaldson worked as a British agent while operating as a senior IRA member and Sinn Féin official in the Stormont parliament.

The party, alongside other more militant republicans, however, continues to revere one of the most controversial figures in 19th century Irish republicanism, John Mitchel. Speaking at a Peile an Phobail event in Belfast on Monday, Adams reportedly said: “The British never fed us. They never had any food.

But as intrepid republicans and being blessed by one or two great cooks these are the recipes that sustained the Irish negotiating team. While it is safe to bet that Adams will never make it to the Great British Bake Off, he revealed he was a fan of British children’s literature when he was growing up, devouring the books of Enid Blyton and Roy of the Rovers.