Paisley

Paisley: Relic of the Past or Harbinger of the Future?

Gerry Lynch on October 26, 2015, 9:56 pm

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I recently chanced upon this 1987 review by Charles Townshend in the LRB of Steve Bruce’s God Save Ulster: The Religion and Politics of Paisleyism. It now reads as a fascinating period piece. Just the previous month, Paisley had performed the first of his major protests at the European Parliament, heckling Margaret Thatcher. She was congratulating the EEC on its expansion to Spain and Portugal when he stood up, brandishing an ‘Ulster Says No’ poster, and shouted, “I would like …

Kyle Paisley, Pastor McConnell & Peter Robinson

Kilsally on May 30, 2014, 9:50 pm

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Kyle Paisley has commented on the recent McConnell / Robinson Islam debate over on the Eamonn Mallie blog. While there are irreconcilable differences between the theology of Biblical Protestantism and the theology of traditional Islam, this is no reason for any man to go out of his way in order to insult another. One has to wonder what Kyle Paisley therefore thinks of Rev Ian Paisley protesting the Pope or Ian Paisley Jnr being ‘repulsed’ by gay people. All Free …

Paisley’s legacy: “when reason and emotion collide, emotion invariably wins”

Mick Fealty on January 23, 2014, 8:03 pm

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Will the obituaries of Ian Paisley have to be re-written as Malachi O’Doherty suggests? Well, maybe. But Malachi does squeeze some new insights from Eamonn’s second and final episode of his two part serial interview on the big man: Another consideration is that Ian Paisley is driven more by heart than head. The positive side of this is that he is wonderfully charming and decent, sometimes. Ann Travers wrote on Facebook this week about how he came to her family …

Never!

Brian Spencer on December 29, 2011, 12:20 am

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When the Chuckles had to stop (Part 1)…

Mick Fealty on March 16, 2008, 11:42 pm

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The Watchman is a keen observer of Ulster politics for many years now and one who has written extensively on Unionist politics. Now, in two parts written especially for Slugger, he exams in detail the nature of the party that gave rise to Paisley, and now post Paisleyism.By the Watchman “Then the angel of the LORD went forth and smote in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred four score and five thousand and when they arose early in the …