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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.
Apr 14, 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.
Sep 12, 2014 · Paisley died Friday at age 88, his wife said in a statement. From the 1960s through the 1990s, often backed by menacing Protestant mobs, Paisley used street protests to thwart compromise with the province’s Catholic minority and to topple moderate Protestant leaders from the rival Ulster Unionist 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...
Sep 12, 2014 · Ian Paisley died today. He was a preacher and politician in Northern Ireland - a Unionist. That meant he was determined to keep Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom.
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Sep 12, 2014 · With his thunderous rhetoric and his bull-like voice, Ian Paisley was always the epitome of an American Deep South preacher. He was born in 1926 in Armagh. His father was a Baptist minister and...
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.
