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Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, PC (6 April 1926 – 12 September 2014) 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.
Jul 10, 2024 · Ian Paisley (born April 6, 1926, Armagh, County Armagh, Northern Ireland—died September 12, 2014, Belfast) was a militant Protestant leader in the factional conflict that divided Northern Ireland from the 1960s, who was first minister of Northern Ireland from May 2007 to June 2008.
Jul 7, 2024 · TUV leader Jim Allister was elected in North Antrim, beating Ian Paisley Jr who lost the seat he has held since 2010, in a shock end to a family dynasty. But how to make some sense of such a ...
Jul 5, 2024 · Ian Paisley Jr had a majority of almost 13,000 in the 2019 election but has now lost the seat by 450 votes. He has previously worked as a junior minister at Stormont and was among the first ...
Sep 12, 2014 · Paisley quit the Orange Order, Northern Ireland’s long-dominant Protestant fraternity, in 1962 after denouncing its tolerance of ecumenical contact with Catholics. He courted fury from mainstream Protestants by leading abusive pickets outside meetings of the Presbyterians and the Anglican-affiliated Church of Ireland.
Jul 5, 2024 · Ian Paisley Jr seen at the count centre early this morning. The son of the party's founder - the Rev Ian Paisley - made no secret of his desire to one day take the reigns at the helm of the party ...
Sep 12, 2014 · The Rev. Ian Paisley, Northern Ireland’s firebrand Protestant leader, who vowed never to compromise with Irish Catholic nationalists, then, in his twilight, accepted a power-sharing agreement...
Ian Paisley, (born April 6, 1926, Armagh, County Armagh, N.Ire.—died September 12, 2014, Belfast, N.Ire.), militant Protestant leader and first minister of Northern Ireland (2007–08).
Sep 12, 2014 · DUBLIN (AP) — The Rev. Ian Paisley, the Protestant firebrand who devoted his life to thwarting compromise with Catholics in Northern Ireland only to become a pivotal peacemaker in his twilight years, died Friday in Belfast. He was 88.
Mar 24, 2023 · From firebrand preacher to First Minister, a new three-part series for BBC Northern Ireland charts the remarkable journey of Ian Paisley, a defining and often divisive figure in Northern...
