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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.
In 1913, the militias were 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, Irish nationalists formed a rival militia, the Irish Volunteers, to safeguard Home Rule. In April 1914, the UVF smuggled 25,000 rifles into Ulster from Imperial ...
UVF 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 established in 1965–6, not linked to the 1913 UVF
Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake repeatedly referred to in vitro fertilization (IVF) as “UVF” in her debate with Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) on Wednesday.
The first loyalist paramilitary group to emerge in the period of the Troubles was 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 of 1913 (which was also called the UVF), formed to resist Irish Home Rule.
31 October: The UVF shot dead Tommy English, a UDA member, in Newtownabbey. Loyalist feud. 1 November: The UDA shot dead a UVF member in Newtownabbey. Loyalist feud. 15 December: The UVF and UDA issued a statement to announce an "open-ended and all-encompassing cessation of hostilities". This marked the end of the loyalist feud which had begun ...
A feud in the winter of 1974-75 broke out between the UDA and the UVF, the two main loyalist paramilitary organisations in Northern Ireland. [1] The bad blood originated from an incident in the Ulster Workers' Council strike of May 1974 when the two groups were co-operating in support of the Ulster Workers' Council.
The modern UVF was established in Belfast's Shankill Road area by Gusty Spence and others in 1966. The new group quickly undertook a sectarian campaign of arson and murder. [ 1 ] During the early 1970s a group of loyalist youths who supported local football teams congregated on the Shankill Road and were regularly involved in clashes with the ...