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| James Galway: Ian Paisley Sr indirectly "responsible" for killings in Northern Ireland | James Galway: Ian Paisley Sr indirectly "responsible" for killings in Northern Ireland |
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| Sir James Galway has launched an attack on the actions of Ian Paisley Sr, saying the late former DUP leader was indirectly "responsible" for murders. | Sir James Galway has launched an attack on the actions of Ian Paisley Sr, saying the late former DUP leader was indirectly "responsible" for murders. |
| The renowned classical flautist told BBC Radio Ulster's The Nolan Show he "never admired" the former Northern Ireland first minister. | The renowned classical flautist told BBC Radio Ulster's The Nolan Show he "never admired" the former Northern Ireland first minister. |
| He said: "I'm sure he was [responsible] because he wasn't exactly preaching let's all live together, was he?" | He said: "I'm sure he was [responsible] because he wasn't exactly preaching let's all live together, was he?" |
| The Paisley family has been contacted but has yet to provide a response. | The Paisley family has been contacted but has yet to provide a response. |
| Sir James, originally from Belfast but now living in Switzerland, said he felt Mr Paisley Sr "on paper was a man of God, but in reality he never was". | |
| Violence | |
| In his career, Mr Paisley Sr, the leader of the Free Presbyterian Church, launched countless attacks on Catholicism and Irish republicanism. | |
| "He was a religious leader. How many people do you think he was responsible for killing indirectly by planting the thoughts of violence and no surrender in the heads of people who had no more sense? | "He was a religious leader. How many people do you think he was responsible for killing indirectly by planting the thoughts of violence and no surrender in the heads of people who had no more sense? |
| "How can you justify setting one side against another?" | "How can you justify setting one side against another?" |
| Sir James said that "maybe [Mr Paisley] didn't have any choice" when he made a historic agreement to share power with Sinn Féin in 2007. | |
| Mr Paisley Sr died in September 2014. He was 88. | |
| Immoral | |
| Sir James also suggested that he was supportive of a united Ireland, and objected to the British empire's historic rule of Ireland. | |
| He said: "Wouldn't you say it is immoral for one country to take over another country just because the other country is not so well armed? Wouldn't you think that was immoral? | |
| "Well, let me put this to you - would you not think that 800 years ago what the British did was immoral and is still immoral?" | |
| He said he considered himself to be Irish, rather than Northern Irish. | |
| "I would like Ireland to be Ireland. | |
| "[People] say: 'Well, how do you become a sir?' I say: 'Because I come from the British-occupied part of Ireland.'" | |
| Stephen Nolan's full interview with Sir James Galway on BBC Radio Ulster's The Nolan Show is available on the BBC iPlayer. |