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The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group based in Northern Ireland. Formed in 1965, [7] it first emerged in 1966. Its first leader was Gusty Spence, a former Royal Ulster Rifles soldier from Northern Ireland. The group undertook an armed campaign of almost thirty years during The Troubles.
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 the Red Hand Commando (RHC), a group integrated into the UVF shortly after their formation in 1972.
Spender encouraged UVF members to join it and many did, although the USC did not engulf the bulk of the UVF (and other loyalist paramilitary groups) until early 1922. [26] Craig hoped to "neutralise" the loyalist paramilitaries by enrolling them in the C Division of the USC, a move that was backed by the British government. [27]
The UVF was a proscribed paramilitary organisation since its formation in 1966; however the ban was lifted on 4 April 1974 by Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Merlyn Rees in an effort to bring the group into the democratic process. The UVF was once more outlawed by the British government in October 1975, though this had minimal effect ...
Security barriers in Portadown, County Armagh at the height of the Troubles. Wright made his home in Portadown from the time he transferred there as a teenager. In the more strongly loyalist environment of Portadown, nicknamed the "Orange Citadel", [15] Wright was, along with other working-class Protestant teenagers in the area, targeted by the loyalist paramilitary organisation, the Ulster ...
UVF men Gusty Spence, Hugh McClean and Robert Williamson shot four Catholic barmen. Off-duty RUC men were in the back room of the bar and arrests were made. [citation needed] The three gunmen were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Terrence O'Neill banned the UVF under the Civil Authorities (Special Powers) Act of 1932.
The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a loyalist paramilitary group, detonated a car bomb outside a pub crowded with people celebrating Saint Patrick's Day. Four Catholic civilians were killed by the blast—including two 13-year-old boys standing outside—and almost 50 people were injured, some severely.
Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF): Ulster loyalist group formed in 1966, which is not related to the Ulster Volunteers. Operated mainly in Northern Ireland; Combat 18 - British Neo-Nazi group; Red Hand Commando (RHC): Ulster loyalist paramilitary group, linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force