Reverend Ian Paisley: 1926-2014 | Channel 4 News 

I wonder how many others got that reference.

MRS BANFIELD!

@@CfOme AT ES NOT MAY, WHO ES BEAING UNRAISONABLE, ET ES YEOU

I totally and utterly REJECT your expressions of sorrow Mrs Bunfield

Those are crocodile tears!

I TOTALLY AND UTTERLY REJECT YOUR IMPRESSIONS OF ME! LET NO ONE BE IN ANY DOUBT THAT THESE ARE CROCODILE TEARS YUUUU ARE CRYING! YUUUU SHALL ALL BE JUDGED GUILTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@@williamulsterman6771 ha ha - that had me laughing aloud.

lol i was about to write the same thing !

Even the pope laughed when he called him the antichrist

Haha!

I asked my mate several times and finally he said "NEVER NEVER NEVER". So I stopped asking after that.

If you're like 40, bless

I am that mate

My cat was not scared of any dog or other cats...we had a page of Ian Paisley quotes on the fridge...when in the grip of 'the buttermilk' I'd roar a fire n brimstone sermon... he'd flee in terror then he'd poke his little head nervously through the cat-door... that's how I knew he was a papisher

I sir, am that mate of my group 😂 a great knashing of teeth haha

*contemptuously unto the mud

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No! Et es YEE who has refused my peaceful and legitimate requehst !

Excuse me who is Frank carson thanks

Packet but do they not go hand in hand?!?

@Packet That is still too simplistic. There were a large group of Northern Irish who liked being British.

@Packet But you said Britain v Ireland. Northern Ireland is apart of Britain.

poetry Jamie R Hill A comedian from Northern Ireland

Same as me 😂

+898989Slayer One and the same.

Indeed, the southern accent is rooted in the "Scotch-Irish" accents of Paisley's ancestors.

@@samnicholson5051 The circumstances deserved him becoming Catholic/

Regrettably, the Bible Belt doesn’t have that sort anymore.

John Knox

He never shook hands with Adam's

It was the ulster unionist and the SDLP leaders shaking hands

That's twice

He used to be. Then he got old and gave in.

@@snowflame4333 So did George Wallace. Too little too late.

George Wallace at least came to his senses for whatever reasons in the mid 70s Paisley was still belting sectarian shite when Blair was in office.

Yes, both kind and wonderfull

Nah He believed what he said And they believed what they did You seem to have a condescending view of these so called "poorly educated supporters" You seem to believe you're less susceptible to propaganda than them

Ian paisly, was an opossr of God, a satanist,.2nd corinthions, cha, 11 on wards, cute that deil is, very,.judus was of the devil,.

@@goyonman9655 I think what they mean is that he was not just a politician, but entertaining, a strong leader archetype to listen to and also follow as part of a movement, which as always attracts the less political minded people and quite a lot more emotionally driven, less "educated" on actual matters etc. It happens all over the world. He loved to put on a show from what I can gather, I don't think he was truly as hardline as his youthful frontman persona let on, it was a huge gig too so he had to play all his cards. Could be wrong, I'm a ceasefire child from the other side so who knows. "I would never repudiate the fact that I am an Irishman".

@@goyonman9655 Does he believe the EU is the tool of ‘the Antichrist’…? Paisley did. Next.

@@jonharrison9222 Exactly Paisley did So did a lot of his supporters So what? What is condescending is assuming out of hand that he must be putting on a fake show to fool supporters. Nah Both Paisley and his supporters believe what they said

You have brains. A relief to know you are out there

Tinted VisionZz one day 😎

It was unionists that carved up the north and created the boundaries for partition so yes we are well aware that only 6 out of 9 Ulster counties are British because we were the ones that decided it so.

@@jack18over so ur a prod

Charlie McCreery whether someone is a prod or not does not necessarily correlate with them being Unionist and the only type of heure to even come out with “so ur a prod” is either a wain or has an intellect on par with a hen. Away with you now boyo, famines over.

Don't you realise that's a 1600s Elizabethian boundary map. Ulster has varied in size over the centuries. Some times smaller sometimes larger.

He was a good Godly man who hated violence

@@northernirelandhd5907 He hated violence so much that he set up a paramilitary and led counter-protest marches which were deliberately violent

@@user-ys5yv2nz6w Police exists to destroy Violence and Terrorism.

@@Life-zu2tv That has nothing to do with what I said

Kincora. Apparently, only three people were involved, they were convicted years ago and they are all dead now. If you buy that, I've got a bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland you may be interested in buying.

But so Northern Ireland

rightfully so

False doctrine Catholicism

Paisley was right about the Pope and summed up that materialistic demonic ridden faith in that speech. Toe curling because its entirely true

@@k8aik8ai he would a madr a good, Jehovah,s. Witness, very mu h so,

@@James-xn1oe yeah where did I say I support UI? 🤔 I don't want to pay higher taxes to fund your failed statelet up there. More than happy to have the British footing the bill. While I buy cheap goods thanks to the weak pound 😊

@@arohanpatla4308 yes. Research the history of this mans work, the people who had their homes burnt in 1969 knew it was "the paisleyites" that done it This man used his religious standing to ingrain sectarianism and racism into the poor peoples hearts The protestant loyalists from ireland have always had a hate preacher teaching them to hate and fear the catholics going back hundreds of years, paisley was just another incarnation of this evil

@@conorfields506 the papacy is the antichrist

Or because he was dying and finally realised peace mattered more than his pride.

What an utterly ridiculous thing to say. To equate Ian paisley to Hitler is laughably stupid

He was a dickhead

The worst being the religion of modern humanism.

+MarineAqua45 why no name or face ? he had a heart of one too - funny how he changed his tune as he got closer to judgement day he will still burn in hell for the hatred he spewed and the blind eye to children being abused

Could do with him today!!!

And a brain of pure Swiss.

He had anger management issues....

Paisley was such an embarrassment the RA kept him alive

Ever time he spoke 100 people joined the cause. He was the greatest recruitment advertisement for the IRA there could ever be

Paisley looked good on the RA recruitment posters.

The IRA’s greatest recruiting tool.

Every time he opened his mouth the IRA gained more recruits. He was the best recruiting tool they could’ve hoped for.

Amen

@JP Collider Whether you believe in Jesus or not, it is a historical fact that he existed.

Are you not from here? These clips weren't even the worst of Paisley, they were an average Tuesday for him.

@@user-ys5yv2nz6w it just seems that the loyalists are always painted badly by left wing news. Any other group of migrants who the local inhabitants decided they want to send them home, it would be totally different. “Send em back” is a curious double standard. If it’s in Northern Ireland it’s fine, apparently

@@RaferJeffersonIII Loyalists aren't painted badly. They make themselves look bad by screaming about Papists and calling the Pope the antichrist in public. And idk what type of allegory you're going for here, but comparing a government sponsored plantation (ie ethnic cleansing) to modern day migration makes no sense. There is no parallel.

@@user-ys5yv2nz6w Given that there were several unsuccessful attempts to invade Britain because it decided Catholicism wasn’t its preferred choice, I think Protestants have a right to be deeply sceptical of Catholicism. If you’re playing in the religious arena, if it’s your belief the pope is the antichrist, that’s nothing harsher than claiming you’re Gods chosen people or that the world started in 7 days. The descendants of the colonists had no choice in where they were born. They have no other home. They are not responsible. They are part of Ireland. Times have changed and we should move on to a multicultural society. What we have playing out here is tribalism. The left tribally dislike anything connected to the concept of the British empire. It’s not constructive to take sides.

@@RaferJeffersonIII So you would also agree that Catholics have a right to be deeply sceptical of Protestantism, given the history of invasions from English Puritans, Scottish Covenanters and Dutch Princes? Not to mention the history of the Protestant Ascendancy, popularity of the Orange Order, or the fact that Catholics in Ireland weren't granted Emancipation until the 1800s? Only 200 years ago now isn't it?

That's a mass protest against the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement. I think it was over 100,000 if I recall.

Why, they follow mans voice,,, and not the voice of. Jah,s, word,,, psam 83, v18,

Look at Ireland now. Protestants and Catholics joining against the true terror, Muslims and their false prophet

+Jim Behr NEVER FORGOTTEN - for one half of the chuckle brothers and by the kids he allowed to be abused - but i dont think he will have much to chuckle about now he has meet his maker him and the pope r both cheecks of the same arse

+Jim Behr The bigot is gone but the Pope lives on.

Jim Behr That's sounds rich coming from that anti-Christ! 😠

it was funny

Robert Shaw actually the pope he did it to is dead

Become Catholic.

Tribalism is a human thing .

@@Valencetheshireman927 well spotted

He was the most intolerant unionist N Ireland ever produced, ironically the party he founded have been thrown under the bus by the conservatives.

That’s not true . Being a strict unionist isn’t a bad thing when you have the IRA to deal with and the DUP are still supported by the Conservatives.

Sadly no Unionist leader has proven outstanding in the way John Hume was. Sadly he was a one off and NI is saddled with mediocre politicians.

@@patrickmccutcheon9361 John Hume is not a Unionist. He came from the Republican SDLP.

@@aricato4399 I never suggested Hume was a Unionist. My point is that the Unionists never had a politician of his calibre. While happily David Trimble proved to be an able foil and they got they deal done, the visionary was Hume. Sadly the electorate, were not ready did not appreciate their efforts and they chose as the largest parties the more hardline unionists and republicans. Their leaders are not capable of running NI. It did work for a while when those parties were led by Messrs Paisley and McGuinness who could pull their parties with them. But those days are gone.

Empty vessels usually do

It's a very complicated subject, one that's incredibly politically and emotionally charged for millions of people in N.Ireland, Ireland and beyond. Definitley worth looking into, but I guess you could say that it began with the British colonisation of Ireland, you had English people settling in much of the East and Central parts of Ireland forming what became the Anglo-Irish community and in the northern province of Ulster, Scottish people were also settling and forming communites. These communities were largely protestant as opposed to the native Irish folk who were largely catholic. Political, economic and social rights became drawn down these lines with the Protestant minority given the right to take land from Catholics without cause, impose harsh taxation and were the only ones with any right to vote. Also, their was a huge effort to erradicate the beautiful language of Irish and replace it with English. I think all the languages of the british isles have their beauty, Gaellic, Welsh, Cornish, Manx and Irish. The imposition of english was a way of killing cultures and it's disgusting. Emancipation was slow with changes to the legislature meaning now voting rights were based off of land ownership, status and wealth. It wasn't until the mid 1800's that the Irish were given any kind of political agency but were treated with disdain by the rest of the UK, the Irish Potato famine typified this xenophobia and hatred. We were meant to be brothers in arms within the 'Union' but people were starving to death en masse and Westminster did nothing to aliviate the suffering. The population of the Ireland has still not recovered to pre-famine levels. Irelands status as a puppet state of Englan->Britain->The UK would last from 1542-1922 with the war for independence. However, the Northern part of Ireland, which as stated now consisted of a large communitiy of protestants were deeply opposed to Irish independence. Many considered themselves to had developed a distinct accent, culture and identity of being Northern Irish/Ulstermen or British. They saw, and many still see themselves as a seperate people with seperate views, goals and wish to remain firmly within the UK. Similarly, religion would of course play a great role in the devisivness that followed with many Protestants feeling repulsed by the concept of living in a Catholic nation. Then for roughly the next 40/50 years Northern Ireland existed as a part of the UK having a devolved parliament within it, however, the large catholic minortity living there were still very much segregated from the rest of the country, living in walled off communities, segregated schools ect. All of this resentment came to a head when civil rights activists marched in Derry, protesting against catholic discrimination on October 5th 1968. The police began beating the protestors severely injuring over 100 people. After this (there were many *many* other events bear in mind) the troubles began with inter community violence between those that wanted Irish reunification and those that wanted to remain British. This was largely contested between the IRA and numerous Unionist groups like the UDA, the UVF, which were firmly but (not so) covertly backed by the government of the UK. Finally this ended in 1998 with the signing of the GFA between the British Government led by Tony Blair and the Irish Government led by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. This established firm rights, a solid politcal system that would represent both republican and unionist voices as well as travel/citizenship rights between the North and South. There's definitley stuff I've left out, like Cromwell and Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the impact of William of Orange as well as the recent impact of Brexit. But that about covers it. Sorry it took so long, if you've read all that I'm impressed, definitley worth looking into.

@@jamesasher63 I had an idea that it was more than a religious conflict but the sheer depth and scope of it is astonishing. Thank you for the information you gave me

@@jgrj52 no problem mate

@@jamesasher63 that is a pretty good summary. I would just add that opportunistic as politicians are the people have a lot to answer for. After the bravery of the Ulster Unionists and the SDLP, respectively the more moderate unionist and nationalist parties, in making the peace agreement the voters in NI rewarded Paisley’s rabble rousing DUP and SF the political wing of the IRA terrorists. Amazing Paisley and McGuinness managed to get on and make the devolved administration work. Their successors have not been as successful and now the whole process is threatened by the stupidity of Brexit which the DUP support in order to undermine the peace process. The irony is that the English nationalists in the Tory party, egged on by the various Farage parties, insisted on a hard Brexit and a protocol introducing customs controls between the mainland GB and NI to protect the Belfast agreement. This enrages the DUP and means NI cannot form an administration. But getting back to the story you could say that Paisley was successful in fomenting bigotry but failed to prevent other parties and the British and Irish Governments in promoting peace.

@@jamesasher63 Fantastic resume on history of The Troubles and not at all long Thanks a lot

They despised Thatcher because they saw her as a sellout, and a traitor to the Union. The Union flag is probably there as some dominance thing I can't put into words properly.

The DUP has never said Yes to anything except bigotry.

@@Amoore-vv9wx Ulster is British and will always remain an intergral part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

@@gd1059 change your last name seoinin

@BossmanFromEnds unionists dying keep denying boy

If he were a catholic he would have been a saint

Irony