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Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside was a loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from 1971 to 2008 and First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2007 to 2008.
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politics · Northern Irish politician and religious leader (1926–2014) · politician · also Ian Paisley, Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, Baron Bannside, The Lord Bannside, Rev. Ian Paisley
Born 6 April 1926 · Died 12 September 2014 · Q296597
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“s dual role as first minister and moderator after the DUP and Sinn Fein agreed to share power last May. When asked if it had been painful to relinquish his post as moderator, Mr Paisley replied:”
“This is a small token of the men who are placed to devastate any attempt by Margaret Thatcher and Charles Haughey to destroy the Union”
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“Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs; Catholic churches were attacked and burned because they were arsenals and priests handed out sub-machine guns to parishioners”
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Public attention spiked: 3,929 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.5× the usual 527, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “Britain's Queen Elizabeth 'abhorred' Ian Paisley and loved hurling, Mary McAleese remembers” (The Journal).
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The Journal: Britain's Queen Elizabeth 'abhorred' Ian Paisley and loved hurling, Mary McAleese remembers
Belfast Telegraph: Former Irish President Mary McAleese says Queen Elizabeth ‘abhorred’ Ian Paisley and his politics
The Herald: Queen Elizabeth 'abhorred' Ian Paisley and his politics says former Irish president
The Irish News: Queen Elizabeth ‘abhorred’ Ian Paisley, says former Irish president Mary McAleese
Daily Mail: Why late Queen hated Ian Paisley - and what she really thought of GAA
Claimed: “The DOJ and NIO joint fund an £8 million a year Programme for Tackling Paramilitary Activity and Organised Crime that funds engagement directly with paramilitary organisations, such as the UVF, UFF, RHC, and UDA.” — rated INACCURATE. While the UK Government funded the first phase of the programme, the cross-department Executive Programme for Tackling Paramilitary Activity and Organised Crime is currently funded by the Northern Ireland Executive, and is not jointly funded by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Northern Ireland Office (NIO). To date, there is no evidence of funds being provided for engagement directly with paramilitary organisations by the programme. by FactCheckNI.
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Irish Central: Trump voters need to learn the lesson of Ian Paisley and The Troubles
IrishCentral: Is Trump our Ian Paisley, have the Troubles come to the United States?
The Guardian: Paisley and McGuinness: the movie. But is it a travesty of the truth?
The Guardian: Timothy Spall on McGuinness and Paisley's friendship: 'It was almost preposterous' – video
The Guardian: The Journey review – Paisley and McGuinness travel far in odd-couple bromance
The Guardian: How Paisley and McGuinness's journey to peace ended at Venice film festival
The Guardian: Timothy Spall to play Ian Paisley in Troubles drama The Journey
Died 2014-09-12.
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“I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman.”
Career landmark: member of the House of Lords (2010–2014).
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Paisley was named as "Opposition Parliamentarian of the Year" in The House Magazine Parliamentary Awards and by The Spectator as "Marathon Man of the Year
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Following the St Andrews Agreement, the DUP finally agreed to share power with republican party Sinn Féin
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Career landmark: First Minister of Northern Ireland (2007–2008).
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Career landmark: Member of the 3rd Northern Ireland Assembly (2007–2011).
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Was made a Privy Counsellor, an appointment traditionally bestowed upon leaders of political parties in the British Parliament
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Paisley expressed sympathy for Catholics, saying "We can understand how Roman Catholics feel at the death of the Pope and we would want in no way to interfere with their expression of sorrow and grief at this time
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Ian Paisley Jr confirmed that his father had been gravely ill
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Career landmark: member of the 54th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2005–2010).
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Career landmark: Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom (2005).
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Paisley's DUP became the largest unionist party in Northern Ireland, displacing the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), which had dominated unionist politics since 1905 and had been an instrumental party in the Good Friday Agre
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Receiving the highest popular vote of any British MEP (although as Northern Ireland used a different electoral system from Great Britain for European elections, the figures are not strictly comparable)
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Career landmark: Member of the 2nd Northern Ireland Assembly (2003–2007).
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Paisley said: The SDLP did not want to go along the road that we would have wanted them to go
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“t say there were talks, there was an exchange of views between us, but it never got anywhere. We were prepared to try and seek a way whereby we could govern Northern Ireland and that people of both faiths could be happy with the way it was being governed, but it all rested on the key point – the person with power would be the person that the people gave the power. Promoting the DUP”
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Show that in 1971 Paisley attempted to reach a compromise with the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
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Career landmark: member of the 53rd Parliament of the United Kingdom (2001–2005).
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Career landmark: Member of the 1st Northern Ireland Assembly (1998–2003).
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But the party withdrew in protest when Sinn Féin was allowed to participate after the Provisional IRA's 1994 ceasefire
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Career landmark: member of the 52nd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1997–2001).
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Career landmark: member of the 51st Parliament of the United Kingdom (1992–1997).
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URM members attempted to trade Shorts' missile blueprints for weapons from the apartheid South African regime
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“Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.”
Having given advance warning of his intentions, Paisley interrupted a speech being delivered by Pope John Paul II in the European Parliament
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Career landmark: member of the 50th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1987–1992).
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Career landmark: member of the 49th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1986–1987).
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Career landmark: member of the 49th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1983–1985).
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As a result of the previous year's ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Dudgeon v United Kingdom
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Career landmark: member of the 48th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1979–1983).
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Became a member of the European Parliament
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The United Unionist Action Council (UUAC) was formed out of the UUUC
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In opposition to the Northern Ireland Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform, established in 1974
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Career landmark: member of the 46th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1974–1974).
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Loyalist paramilitaries tried to enforce the strike by blocking roads, intimidating workers and attacking businesses that refused to co-operate
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Many workers refused to join the strike and the security forces were better prepared
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Career landmark: member of the 47th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1974–1979).
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Career landmark: Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (1971–2008).
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Career landmark: member of the 45th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1971–1974).
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Became Member of Parliament (MP) for North Antrim and the following year he founded the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which he would lead for almost 40 years
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Received an honorary doctorate of divinity from the institution and subsequently served on its board of trustees
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A peaceful civil rights campaign began in Northern Ireland
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“this Romish man of sin is now in Hell!”
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Paisley condemned them for "committing spiritual fornication and adultery with the Antichrist"
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Paisley was one of the founders of Ulster Protestant Action (UPA)
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When Maura Lyons, a 15-year-old Belfast Catholic doubting her faith, sought his help and was smuggled illegally to Scotland by members of his Free Presbyterian Church
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Co-founded the Reformed fundamentalist Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster and was its leader until 2008
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Paisley formed a Northern Irish branch of the National Union of Protestants, the group being led in the UK by his uncle, W
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And remained one for the rest of his life
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Born 1926-04-06.
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t say there were talks, there was an exchange of views between us, but it never got anywhere. We were prepared to try and seek a way whereby we could govern Northern Ireland and that people of both faiths could be happy with the way it was being governed, but it all rested on the key point – the person with power would be the person that the people gave the power. Promoting the DUP
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