Feckers by John Waters

Author:John Waters
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781849019248
Publisher: Constable & Robinson
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

30 Ian Paisley

Once, back in the 1970s, Paisley boasted of how John Hume had once turned to him in frustration and said, ‘Paisley, you’re just an Ulster Protestant.’

‘I replied to Mr Hume: “I am glad that at last you have got the message. I am indeed an Ulster Protestant!”’

Although there has since been the bones of an accommodation between Southern nationalism and Paisley’s tribe, the truth of the matter is that the condition of Ulster Protestantism is still as mystifying to most of those who live south of the border as it ever was. We just don’t get it: their reciprocal ignorance of Southern nationalism, their rage against the Republic, their belligerence, their dogged insistence on being ‘British’ in defiance of geography and self-interest. Neither do we get the way they don’t get us: their persistent prating about ‘Rome rule’, long after the fact. Their continuing condescension about the ‘banana republic’ and their ironic references to the ‘Free State’, even though their own little ‘statelet’ went to wrack and ruin while the Republic was going to Paradise and back. ‘They try to explain Ian Paisley, but they don’t understand,’ the Big Fella elaborated to a meeting of his followers in Omagh in 1981. ‘Ian Paisley is the incarnation of every Protestant Ulsterman here at this meeting tonight. I am only saying what you want me to say, what you want to hear.’

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