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The Irish Unionist Alliance (IUA), also known as the Irish Unionist Party, Irish Unionists or simply the Unionists, was a unionist political party founded in Ireland in 1891 from a merger of the Irish Conservative Party and the Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union (ILPU) to oppose plans for home rule for Ireland within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
United Ulster Unionist Party (1975–1984) Progressive Unionist Party (1978–present) Ulster Popular Unionist Party (1980–1995) Ulster (Loyalist) Democratic Party (1982–2001) UK Independence Party (UKIP 1993–present) UK Unionist Party (UKUP 1995–2007) United Unionist Coalition (1998–2012) Northern Ireland Unionist Party (1999–2008)
Loyalist representatives had helped negotiate the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, and it was backed by the UVF-linked Progressive Unionist Party and UDA-linked Ulster Democratic Party. However, wider loyalist support for the Agreement was tenuous from the outset, [ 30 ] and these parties received many fewer votes than the main unionist parties ...
The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. [5] The party was founded as the Ulster Unionist Council in 1905, emerging from the Irish Unionist Alliance in Ulster. Under Edward Carson, it led unionist opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
Unionist Party of Northern Ireland, existed from 1974 and 1981; United Ulster Unionist Party, existed from 1975 and 1982, splinted from the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party due to a disagreement over power-sharing; Ulster Popular Unionist Party, existed from 1980 to 1995; UK Unionist Party, existed 1995 to 2008
The Ulster Third Way was the Northern Ireland branch of the Third Way and was organised by David Kerr, who had previously campaigned as an 'independent Unionist' (chairing the small North Belfast Independent Unionist Association) as well as for the British National Front. It followed an Ulster nationalist ideology.
Northern Ireland Unionist Party politicians (1 C) P. Progressive Unionist Party politicians (1 C, 13 P) R. Russellite Unionist MPs (4 P) T.
The Green Party Northern Ireland voted in 2005 to become a region of the Irish Green Party, making it the second party to be organised on an all-Ireland basis. It has Northern Ireland members on the Irish Green Party national executive. In June 2007, the Green Party entered coalition government with Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats.