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He has also been described as "important in the emergence of the Provisional Ireland Republican Army in 1970". Adams was captured after being shot and wounded during an Ireland Republican Army operation in 1942 after he shot an RUC police officer in the foot. He was sentenced to eight years in prison and served five.
He died on 17 November 2003, "a lonely old man," He was buried with the Irish tricolour, despite the private reservations of family members over alleged abuse that would only be made public some years later.
The family said that this abuse "had a devastating impact" on the family, which they were still then coming to terms with. The family decided to go public about the abuse in order to help other families in similar circumstances.
