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    The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group based in Northern Ireland. Formed in 1965, it first emerged in 1966. Its first...
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    organised into the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and vowed to resist any attempts by the British Government to impose Home Rule on Ulster. Later that year...
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    The Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) was an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. It was formed by Billy Wright in 1996 when he and his...
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    During the conflict, loyalist paramilitaries such as the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and Ulster Defence Association (UDA) often attacked Catholics, partly...
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  • This is a timeline of actions by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group since 1966. It includes actions carried out by...
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    The Troubles (redirect from Ulster Troubles)
    Liberation Army (INLA); loyalist paramilitaries such as the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and Ulster Defence Association (UDA); British state security forces...
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    was the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). All three groups are proscribed organisations in the United Kingdom under the Terrorism Act 2000. The Ulster Defence...
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  • 1966 and 1969 and closely linked to the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee (UCDC) and Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), established by Ian Paisley and Noel...
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    1902. p. 9. A. T. Q. Stewart, The Ulster Crisis (1967), p. 122; Timothy Bowman, Carson's Army: The Ulster Volunteer Force, 1910–22 (2007), p. 60. Denis Brian's...
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    in terms of recruiting members and in carrying out attacks. The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) was active locally from early in the Troubles. They placed...
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    organised strike-breaking force, with memories of the 1907 Belfast Dock strike still fresh. The anti-Home Rule Ulster Volunteer Force was created in January...
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  • Russell Watton. Moderate centre-left unionist. Political wing of Ulster Volunteer Force. The Conservative Party also organises and contests elections in...
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  • Loyalist feud (category Ulster Volunteer Force)
    and within the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) as well as, later, the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF). Although...
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    imprisoned Ulster Resistance members. Loyalist Family Welfare adverts seeking donations were regularly published in the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) magazine...
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    Red Hand Commando (category Ulster loyalist militant groups)
    is a small secretive Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland that is closely linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). Its aim was to...
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    in 1912 which later became the youth wing of Ulster loyalist paramilitary group the Ulster Volunteer Force. It was established to bridge the gap for 18...
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  • Gusty Spence (category Ulster Volunteer Force members)
    June 1933 – 25 September 2011) was a leader of the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and a leading loyalist politician in Northern Ireland. One...
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  • Clifford Peeples (category Ulster Volunteer Force members)
    with Ulster loyalism, for which he was convicted of terrorist activity and imprisoned. Peeples has been a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)...
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    others; and the assassination of outspoken loyalist politician and Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) member George Seawright in November 1987. On 1 May 1990 the...
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  • Billy Wright (loyalist) (category Ulster Volunteer Force members)
    leader who founded the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) during The Troubles. Wright had joined the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in his home town of Portadown...
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  • UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade formed part of the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force in Northern Ireland. The brigade was established in Lurgan, County...
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    The Ulster Special Constabulary (USC; commonly called the "B-Specials" or "B Men") was a quasi-military reserve special constable police force in what...
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  • Progressive Unionist Party (category Ulster Volunteer Force)
    Shankill area of Belfast, becoming the PUP in 1979. Linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and Red Hand Commando (RHC), for a time it described itself...
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    rebel groups such as the Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Ulster Volunteer Force who often used gelignite as a booster. In the 1970s, Irish Industrial...
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  • during the conflict (1968–1998). 5 August - RTÉ Studio bombing: The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) detonated a bomb at Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) headquarters...
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  • September 1914. Originally called the Ulster Division, it was made up of mainly members of the Ulster Volunteer Force, who formed thirteen additional battalions...
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  • both the republican and loyalist communities (such as the UDA, Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), etc. on the loyalist side), the Troubles cost the lives of...
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  • Richard Jameson (loyalist) (category Ulster Volunteer Force members)
    paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force's (UVF) Mid-Ulster Brigade. He was killed outside his Portadown home during a feud with the rival Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF)...
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  • Billy Spence (category Ulster Volunteer Force members)
    Belfast, Spence was a leading figure with both Ulster Protestant Action and the Ulster Volunteer Force. Born in Belfast, Spence was the older brother...
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  • of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) 7 members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) 6 were members of the British Army 2 were Royal Ulster Constabulary...
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