While in jail Adams took part in a "strip strike" from June to September 1943.
His children include Gerry Adams, who became a leading figure in Sinn Féin and was its president until 2018, as well as a former abstentionist MP for Belfast West and former TD.
Another son of his, Liam Adams, died serving a prison sentence in Northern Ireland for sexually abusing his daughter.
[5] 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.
[6] His son Gerry Adams said that he felt his father had 'besmirched' the flag.