Who was Ian Paisley?

William Brown, who knew Paisley from an early age, has written a compelling assessment of the Rev Ian Paisley’s life as a preacher and politician. Why, after decades of saying ‘no’ and ‘never’, did Ian Paisley lead the Democratic Unionist Party into government with Sinn Féin? Was it Tony Blair’s flattery? Or the special leadership and personal qualities of Martin McGuinness? Or the irresistible lure of the First Minister position? Find out about Paisley’s extraordinary history of theological division and unionist political disruption in Brown’s closely observed account of one of the key figures in Northern Ireland’s turbulent history.