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Ian Paisley
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, (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. Paisley became a Protestant evangelical minister in 1946 and remained one for the rest of his life. In 1951 he co-founded the Reformed fundamentalist Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster and was its leader until 2008. Paisley became known for his fiery sermons and regularly preached anti-Catholicism, anti-ecumenism and against homosexuality. He gained a large group of followers who were referred to as Paisleyites. Paisley became involved in Ulster unionist/loyalist politics in the late 1950s. In the mid-late 1960s he led and instigated loyalist opposition to the Catholic civil rights movement in Northern Ireland. This contributed to the outbreak of the Troubles in the late 1960s, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Paisley Jr
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley Jr (born 12 December 1966) is a Northern Irish businessman and former unionist politician. A member of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), he served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Antrim from 2010 to 2024, and was previously a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for North Antrim from 1998 to 2010. Paisley is the DUP's Spokesperson for Digital, Culture, Media and Sports. He is a son of the DUP's founder Ian Paisley. Childhood Born in Belfast in 1966, Paisley is the youngest child of the Reverend Ian Paisley and his wife Eileen Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George's. The younger Ian, along with his twin brother (Kyle) and his three elder sisters (Sharon, Rhonda and Cherith), was brought up in a large detached house on Cyprus Avenue in east Belfast. Being the younger of the twins, he was named after his father who was the younger of two brothers. He regularly attended the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster (where his father preached) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry School Of Evangelism
Union School of Theology is a Reformed educational institution in Bryntirion in Bridgend, South Wales. The School is part of the wider Christian ministry of Union which also involves church planting and the production of theological resources. Leadership and faculty The President of the school is Michael Reeves who also functions as professor of theology. He took up the role in January 2016, having been head of theology at the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship. Other faculty of the school include provost Dustin Benge, Robert Letham, Raymond C. Ortlund Jr., Donald Fairbairn and Richard Turnbull. Programmes of study The majority of Union School of Theology students study with the School in order to prepare for Christian ministry. Campus courses A three-year, full-time residential BA Hons degree in Theology is offered, covering Biblical Studies, Theological and Historical Studies, and Ministerial and Missional Practice. Students on the Masters of Theology (MTh) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Ireland (European Parliament Constituency)
Northern Ireland ( ; Ulster Scots dialects, Ulster-Scots: ') was a constituency of the European Parliament from 1979 until the Brexit, UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020. It elected three Members of the European Parliament, MEPs using the single transferable vote, making it the only constituency in the United Kingdom which did not use First-past-the-post voting, first-past-the-post or party-list proportional representation. Boundaries The constituency covered the entirety of Northern Ireland, a Countries of the United Kingdom, constituent country of the United Kingdom. It was the only constituency in the United Kingdom the boundaries of which remained unchanged from the first direct election in 1979 until the UK left the European Union in 2020. Members of the European Parliament {, class="wikitable" !Year !colspan=2, Member !Party !colspan=2, Member !Party !colspan=2, Member !Party , - , 1979 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, 1979 , rowspan=6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballygowan
Ballygowan () is a village in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is within the Ards and North Down Borough. The town of Comber is a short distance to the north-east, the town of Saintfield to the south, and the city of Belfast further to the north-west. It is within the civil parishes of Killinchy and Comber and is split between the historic baronies of Castlereagh Lower and Castlereagh Upper. It had a population of 3,138 people in the 2021 Census. History Before the early 17th century Plantation of Ulster, when many Lowland Scots moved across the Irish Sea to settle in northern Ireland on lands granted by King James I to James Hamilton and Hugh Montgomery, the area of Ballygowan was sparsely inhabited by Irish Gaels. It was within the territory of Clannaboy, and in 1744 the McGowans of the Ards were associated with the Clannaboy O'Neills. In the late 18th century the village comprised a bridge (over the River Blackwater at the intersection of the Comber/Saintfield and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhonda Paisley
Rhonda Paisley (born 1960) is a Northern Irish author and former unionist politician. She is the second daughter of the former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader and Northern Ireland's former First Minister Ian Paisley and lives with her mother in the family home. She attended Bob Jones University in the United States (the same institution from which her father received his honorary degree), where she was awarded a BA in Fine Art. Political career Paisley served as a Belfast City councillor for the DUP. Sammy Wilson named her as Lady Mayoress during his tenure as first DUP Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1986/87. She served eight years as a councillor before leaving politics, later claiming that "the game plan of politics frustrated me". Media career Paisley once guest-presented '' Saturday Live'', a TV chat-show on the Republic of Ireland's RTÉ One channel. Her father was one of her guests. Controversy The day after a series of Ulster Freedom Fighters incendiary bombings on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Paisley, Baroness Paisley Of St George's
Eileen Emily Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George's, Baroness Bannside (; born 2 November 1931), is a Northern Irish Unionist politician from Belfast. She is the widow of Ian Paisley, Lord Bannside. Baroness Paisley became a life peer in 2006 and retired from the House of Lords on 30 October 2017. She is a vice-president of the Democratic Unionist Party. Early life Eileen Cassells came from the well-to-do Sandown Road area of East Belfast. Her family were originally of the Presbyterian faith but became members of the Baptist Church after a disagreement with their minister. Cassells had three elder siblings, all of whom died of scarlet fever before her birth. She worked as a shorthand typist prior to her marriage to the Rev. Ian Richard Kyle Paisley on 13 October 1956, by which stage she had converted to Free Presbyterianism. Among the congregation was Roman Catholic Falls Road girl Maura Lyons whose conversion to Free Presbyterianism and subsequent disappearance had Norther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protestant Unionist Party
The Protestant Unionist Party (PUP)Not to be confused with the Progressive Unionist Party. was a unionist political party operating in Northern Ireland from 1966 to 1971. It was the forerunner of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and emerged from the Ulster Protestant Action (UPA) movement. It was founded and led by Ian Paisley, who also founded and led the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster. The UPA had two councillors elected to Belfast Corporation. In 1967, both were re-elected as PUP candidates. The PUP stood six candidates against the ruling Ulster Unionist Party of the Northern Ireland parliament in the January 1969 general election. They polled over 20,000 votes, but gained no seats, although Paisley was seen as coming close in the previously safe Bannside seat of the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill. When Terence O'Neill (the then Northern Irish Prime Minister) stood down from Stormont in 1970 along with one of his colleagues, the PUP nominated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Unionist Party
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is a Unionism in Ireland, unionist, Ulster loyalism, loyalist, British nationalist and national conservative political party in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1971 during the Troubles by Ian Paisley, who led the party for the next 37 years. It is currently led by Gavin Robinson, who initially stepped in as an interim after the resignation of Jeffrey Donaldson. It is the second-largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly, and won five seats in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom at the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 election. The party has been mostly described as right-wing"It will be ‘difficult’ for May to survive, says N Ireland’s DUP" , By Vincent Boland & Robert Wright. Financial Times. 9 June 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belfast
Belfast (, , , ; from ) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel. It is the second-largest city in Ireland (after Dublin), with an estimated population of in , and a Belfast metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of 671,559. First chartered as an English settlement in 1613, the town's early growth was driven by an influx of Scottish people, Scottish Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Presbyterians. Their descendants' disaffection with Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland's Protestant Ascendancy, Anglican establishment contributed to the Irish Rebellion of 1798, rebellion of 1798, and to the Acts of Union 1800, union with Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain in 1800—later regarded as a key to the town's industrial transformation. When granted City status in the United Kingdom#Northern Ireland, city s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armagh
Armagh ( ; , , " Macha's height") is a city and the county town of County Armagh, in Northern Ireland, as well as a civil parish. It is the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland – the seat of the Archbishops of Armagh, the Primates of All Ireland for both the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of Ireland. In ancient times, nearby Navan Fort () was a pagan ceremonial site and one of the great royal capitals of Gaelic Ireland. Today, Armagh is home to two cathedrals (both named after Saint Patrick) and the Armagh Observatory, and is known for its Georgian architecture. Statistically classed as a medium-sized town by NISRA, Armagh was given city status in 1994 and Lord Mayoralty status in 2012. It had a population of 16,310 people in the 2021 Census. History Foundation ''Eamhain Mhacha'' (or Navan Fort), at the western edge of Armagh, was an ancient pagan ritual or ceremonial site. According to Irish mythology it was one of the great royal sites of Gaelic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence O'Neill
Terence Marne O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Privy Council of Northern Ireland, PC (NI) (10 September 1914 – 12 June 1990), was the fourth Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and leader (1963–1969) of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). A moderate Unionism (Ireland), unionist who sought to reconcile sectarian divisions in Northern Ireland society and met with his counterpart in the Republic of Ireland, Irish Republic, he was a member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for the Bannside (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency), Bannside constituency from 1946 until his resignation in January 1970. Background Terence O'Neill was born on 10 September 1914 at 29 Ennismore Gardens, Hyde Park, London,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography to The Honourable, The Hon, Arthur O'Neill and his wife Lady Annabel Hungerford Crewe-Milnes. O'Neill grew up in London and was educated at West Downs School, Winchester and Eton College. He spent summer holidays in Ulster. Following s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bannside (Northern Ireland Parliament Constituency)
Bannside was a single-member county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland. Boundaries and Boundary Changes This was a division of County Antrim. Before 1929 it was part of the seven-member Antrim constituency. The constituency sent one MP to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland from 1929 until the Parliament was temporarily suspended in 1972, and then formally abolished in 1973. In terms of the then local government areas the constituency in 1929 comprised parts of the Rural Districts of Antrim, Ballymena and Ballymoney. After boundary changes in 1969 the constituency included parts of the same Rural Districts but ''Bannside'' was extended to take in the northern part of the 1929–1969 Antrim Borough constituency. Members of Parliament Elections ''The parliamentary representatives of the division were elected using the first past the post system.'' * ''Death of Young'' * ''Death of Patrick'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
