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By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - In the bars of South Boston, Irish-Americans reacted with shock on Thursday to the news that Gerry Adams, a man some regard as a hero for his role in the peace process, had been arrested in Northern Ireland in connection with a murder committed 42 years ago. Some were worried that Adams' arrest would cause trouble back in Ireland and expressed anger that the U.S. government had cleared the way for the release of a trove of documents by Boston College researchers that may have paved the way for the arrest. They had no reason at all to go after him after all these years," said Jerry Byrne, the barman at Croke Park, just down the block from a mural of a map of Ireland that reads "Ireland unfree will never be at peace." Byrne said he viewed Adams, a former Irish Republican Army spokesman who reinvented himself as a populist opposition politician, as a hero for his role in ending the 30 years of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland known as "The Troubles." "They always wanted to get him," Byrne, 55, and originally from Dublin said of Adams.
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