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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), which first appeared in 1966, led by Gusty Spence. The UVF saw itself as the direct continuation of the Ulster Volunteers...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    youth wing of Ulster loyalist paramilitary group the Ulster Volunteer Force. It appropriated the name of the original Young Citizen Volunteers formed in 1912...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • may refer to: The Ulster Volunteers, started in 1912 and organised as the Ulster Volunteer Force in 1913 The Ulster Volunteer Force, a paramilitary organisation...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Russell Watton (category Ulster Volunteer Force members)
    also PUP deputy leader between 2022 and 2023. Watton joined the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in the 1970s, and was believed to the commander of the UVF...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Catholics e.g. the Ulster Protestant Volunteers, the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee, the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Ulster Special Constabulary...
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  • Robin Jackson (category Ulster Volunteer Force members)
    paramilitary and part-time soldier. He was a senior officer in the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) during the period of violent ethno-nationalist conflict in...
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