Ian Paisley Ian Paisley Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside (6 April 1926 – 12 September 2014), was a loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland. He became a Protestant evangelical minister in 1946 and remained one for the rest of his life. In 1951 he co-founded the fundamentalist Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster and was its leader until 2008. Paisley became known for his fiery sermons and regularly preached and protested against Roman Catholicism, ecumenism and homosexuality. He gained a large group of followers who were referred to as Paisleyites. Paisley became involved in Ulster unionist/loyalist politics in the
The Minister Who Falls to Pieces the sketch becomes ever more absurd. Retrieved from The Four Sydney Lotterbies The Minister Who Falls to Pieces "The Minister Who Falls to Pieces", also known as "The Minister Who Falls Apart" and "The Disintegrating Minister," was a surreal British comedy sketch. Though it was heard on radio in 1966 (with John Cleese in the role of the interviewer), it is probably best known in the version performed by Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graham Chapman in the later 1960s on television, in "At Last the 1948 Show". The sketch can be heard on the original soundtrack album of "At Last the