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Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley listens to speeches at the Conservative Party's annual conference in 2006.

Filmmaker Jon Ronson remembers the firebrand Northern Irish politician Ian Paisley

September 12, 2014Global Politics

Controversial, belligerent and bigoted — those were some of the words used to describe the Reverend Ian Paisley, the Northern Irish political giant, after his death on Friday. Writer and filmmaker Jon Ronson spent a week making a documentary about Paisley and came away from it with respect for the man many hated.

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