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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

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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.

A woman carries a carton of milk past a Republican mural of "Gaeilgeoir" (Irish speaker) Bobby Sands outside the Sinn Fein offices on the Falls road in West Belfast (Reuters/Cathal McNaughton)

A New Protestant Beginning for the Irish Language in Belfast

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