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Biography of Ian K. PaisleyName: Ian K. PaisleyBirth Date: April 6, 1926 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: Armagh, Northern Ireland Nationality: British Gender: Male Occupations: political leader, minister Ian K. Paisley Political leader and minister of religion, Ian K. Paisley (born 1926) played a significant role in the bitter strife that plagued Northern Ireland for decades.Ian Kyle Paisley, born on April 6, 1926, was reared in the tradition of evangelical Protestantism. His father, a Baptist minister, ordained him in 1946 when he was 20 years old and by 1951 the young Paisley felt able to found his own church, the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, and to make himself its moderator.Publicity was gained by outbursts against Catholicism and the "Romeward" inclinations he attributed to other Protestant churches, and he rose to prominence attacking both ecumenism and the granting of full civil rights to a disadvantaged sector that was largely Roman Catholic. Dismissed as a rabble-rousing bigot in established Unionist and Orange circles, he eventually challenged these with his own version of both political party and Orange Order.In 1951 he acquired local notoriety by adopting the …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…There is only one biography, by a Catholic barrister, Patrick Marrinan, Paisley: Man of Wrath (1973), though an unpublished Ph.D. thesis of Queen's University Belfast, by D. F. Taylor, "The Lords of Battle: an Ethnographic and Social Study of Paisleyism in N. Ireland" (1983) throws much light on the phenomenon of his movement. Paisley's own political writings include No Pope Here (1968), The Case against Ecumenism (1971), United Ireland Never! (1972), and, with P.D. Robinson and John D. Taylor, Ulster: the Facts (1982). C. Carlton, editor, Bigotry and Blood, Documents on the Ulster Troubles (1977) contains some of Paisley's views. There is a perceptive short article on Paisley by one of the most tireless European observers of the Northern Ireland situation: René Frechet, "Ian Paisley et L'Irlande du Nord" in Trema (1985).For additional information see the Democratic Unionists Web site, http://www.dup.org.uk/paisley.htm; Irish Voice (April 12, 1994); and New Statesman (November 29, 1996). |