It was 20 years ago when Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams won the right to visit America after President Bill Clinton gave him a 48-hour visa.

On January 31, 1994 Adams stepped off the plane in New York from Dublin, and Northern Ireland was never the same again.

Download the pages from the Irish Independent & Cork Examiner 01. February.1994 Below:

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