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27 March: A bomb exploded at St Malachy's College on the Antrim Road in Belfast. The UVF is suspected. [28] 28 March: A bomb exploded at St Malachy's College old boys' club on the Crumlin Road in Belfast. The UVF is suspected. [28] 2 May: British security forces uncovered a UVF store of gelignite explosive at Nutt's Corner outside Belfast. [36]
Fifteen Catholic civilians were killed and seventeen wounded. It was the UVF's deadliest attack in Northern Ireland, and the deadliest attack in Belfast during the Troubles. [43] The following year, 1972, was the most violent of the Troubles.
In the pub Hudson told the UVF members that he abhorred the killings that had just taken place at a Belfast bookmakers – an attack actually carried out by the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) – and in response they asked him if he would like to put his objections directly to the UVF leadership. Hudson agreed to hold a meeting.
The 1994 Shankill Road killings took place on 16 June 1994 when the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) shot dead three Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) members – high-ranking member of the UVF Belfast Brigade staff Trevor King and two other UVF members, Colin Craig and David Hamilton – on the Shankill Road in Belfast, close to the UVF headquarters.
In the next attack Thomas Murphy (29), a Catholic photographer from Belfast, was killed in a booby-trap bomb and gun attack, when two UVF gunmen entered his premises on Carlisle Circus (close to both the loyalist Shankill Road and republican New Lodge areas of Belfast) and shot him in the chest, before planting a duffel bag bomb in his shop.
13 March – 1975 Conway's Bar attack: A UVF member blew himself up along with a Catholic civilian woman while attempting to plant a bomb in a Belfast pub. 5 April – Mountainview Tavern attack: A group calling itself the Republican Action Force bombed a pub in Belfast, killing four Protestant civilians and a UDA member, and injured 50 people.
James Watt also known as Tonto (born 21 September 1952) [1] is a former Northern Irish loyalist who was the top bomb maker for the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in the mid-1970s. In 1978, Watt was convicted and given nine separate life sentences for murder and attempted murder.
12 July: a UDA volunteer shot dead an Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) volunteer attending Eleventh night celebrations in Larne. Loyalist feud. [250] 21 August: the UVF shot dead two UDA volunteers sitting in a jeep on Crumlin Road, Belfast. Loyalist feud. 23 August: the UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a UVF volunteer on Summer Street ...