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William McGrath
William McGrath (11 December 1916-1992) was a loyalist from Northern Ireland who founded the far-right organisation Tara in the 1960s, having also been prominent in the Orange Order until his expulsion due to his paedophilia. A house master in Kincora Boys' Home in East Belfast,〔("Any threat to the majority Is not welcome" ), ''Irish News'', 8 September 2004; retrieved 29 October 2009〕 in 1981 he was jailed for four years for paedophile activities at the Home.
==Early years==
McGrath was born on 11 December 1916 to a Methodist family living in Earl Street〔Chris Moore, ''The Kincora Scandal: Political Cover-Up and Intrigue in Northern Ireland'', Marino Books, 1996, p. 21〕 in the Sailortown area of Belfast. McGrath married his English-born wife Kathleen, who served at the nearby Worldwide Evangelisation Crusade, and the two set up home on the Antrim Road before moving to Finaghy.〔 He was a member of the Orange Order and for a time acted as chaplain to the prestigious Fernhill Orange Lodge.〔 McGrath was also a branch member of the Ulster Unionist Party and for a time a delegate to the party, although he did not take a prominent role in party politics.〔Moore, ''The Kincora Scandal'', pp. 59-60〕
Their house in Finaghy, a large mansion, was named Faith House and became the centre for the Christian Fellowship and Irish Emancipation Centre which they established in 1941, with rooms made available for young people to stay.〔 McGrath travelled widely throughout Northern Ireland preaching his religious message, which included hard-line Ulster loyalist principles. McGrath claimed that Northern Ireland was on the verge of chaos and blamed it on the Irish Republican Army's supposed turn to communism, which he saw as the enemy of Christianity.〔Moore, ''The Kincora Scandal'', pp. 22-23〕 According to the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), as part of his virulent anti-communism, McGrath made contact with clandestine religious groups in Eastern Europe and smuggled in Bibles and religious tracts for their use.〔Moore, ''The Kincora Scandal'', p. 29〕
McGrath's message was also highly anti-Catholic, arguing for instance that the Pope had all nuns and priests as part of his private army and that the Society of Jesus was deliberately destroying Ulster Protestant culture.〔Moore, ''The Kincora Scandal'', p. 24〕 McGrath argued that until the 12th century Ireland had adhered to a local form of Celtic Christianity until Pope Adrian IV had decreed that Henry II of England should invade and force out the native church in favour of what McGrath portrayed as the decadent Roman church. On this basis McGrath added an all-Ireland dimension to his thinking that was at odds with the wider political circles in which he was to move.〔 Amongst his early converts was Roy Garland, a young Shankill Road native, who claims that on their first meeting McGrath twice felt his leg and extolled to him the virtues of close relationships between men.〔Moore, ''The Kincora Scandal'', pp. 27-28〕
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