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| 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 that envisioned a new era of peace in Ulster after decades of sectarian violence, died Friday in Northern Ireland. He was 88. | 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 that envisioned a new era of peace in Ulster after decades of sectarian violence, died Friday in Northern Ireland. He was 88. |
| In failing health in recent years, Mr. Paisley had been fitted with a pacemaker in 2011 after falling ill in London and had retired from politics and the pulpit. His wife, Eileen, confirmed his death in a statement. | |
| The day many thought would never come arrived in Belfast on May 8, 2007. Mr. Paisley, founder of the Democratic Unionist party, which sought continued association with Britain, and Martin McGuinness, a Sinn Fein leader and former commander of the Irish Republican Army, which had fought for a united Ireland, shook hands and took oaths as the leader and deputy leader, respectively, of Ulster’s power-sharing government. | The day many thought would never come arrived in Belfast on May 8, 2007. Mr. Paisley, founder of the Democratic Unionist party, which sought continued association with Britain, and Martin McGuinness, a Sinn Fein leader and former commander of the Irish Republican Army, which had fought for a united Ireland, shook hands and took oaths as the leader and deputy leader, respectively, of Ulster’s power-sharing government. |
| As Prime Ministers Tony Blair of Britain and Bertie Ahern of Ireland looked on, the proceedings ended British governance and reinstated home-rule in Belfast. It bridged the chasm between Mr. Paisley and Gerry Adams, the I.R.A. leader who had negotiated the agreement. And it relegated to the past a civil war, known as the Troubles, that had raged from the 1960s into the 1990s and cost 3,700 lives. | As Prime Ministers Tony Blair of Britain and Bertie Ahern of Ireland looked on, the proceedings ended British governance and reinstated home-rule in Belfast. It bridged the chasm between Mr. Paisley and Gerry Adams, the I.R.A. leader who had negotiated the agreement. And it relegated to the past a civil war, known as the Troubles, that had raged from the 1960s into the 1990s and cost 3,700 lives. |
| The following year, Mr. Paisley — white-haired, 82 and seemingly mellowed — resigned as Ulster’s first minister and as leader of the Democratic Unionists, by then the dominant party of Ulster’s Protestants, which he founded in 1971. He had already stepped down as head of the Free Presbyterian Church, which he founded in 1951, and had given up a seat he had held for 28 years in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. In 2010 he gave up a seat in the British House of Commons that he had held for 40 years. | The following year, Mr. Paisley — white-haired, 82 and seemingly mellowed — resigned as Ulster’s first minister and as leader of the Democratic Unionists, by then the dominant party of Ulster’s Protestants, which he founded in 1971. He had already stepped down as head of the Free Presbyterian Church, which he founded in 1951, and had given up a seat he had held for 28 years in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. In 2010 he gave up a seat in the British House of Commons that he had held for 40 years. |
| It was the winding down of a tumultuous career as a rabble-rousing minister-politician whose single-minded objective had been to preserve Protestant power and repress the Roman Catholic minority in Northern Ireland, keeping Ulster aligned with Britain, across the Irish Sea, and out of the reach — he would have said the clutches — of predominantly Catholic Ireland to the south. | It was the winding down of a tumultuous career as a rabble-rousing minister-politician whose single-minded objective had been to preserve Protestant power and repress the Roman Catholic minority in Northern Ireland, keeping Ulster aligned with Britain, across the Irish Sea, and out of the reach — he would have said the clutches — of predominantly Catholic Ireland to the south. |