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1966: sporadic petrol bomb attacks and vandalism targeting Catholic-owned property started in early 1966, particularly in and around the Shankill Road. [6]6 April 1966: UVF members threw petrol bombs at a Catholic primary school—Holy Cross Girls' School—in Belfast.
On 2 October 1975, the loyalist paramilitary group the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) carried out a wave of shootings and bombings across Northern Ireland. Six of the attacks left 12 people dead (mostly civilians) and around 45 people injured. [1] There was also an attack in a small village in County Down called Killyleagh. There were five ...
The UVF was suspected of organising a hoax bomb attack targeting a "peace-building" event in Belfast where Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney was speaking on 27 March 2022. [ 108 ] [ 109 ] Armed men hijacked a van on the nearby Shankill Road and forced the driver to take a device to a church on the Crumlin Road.
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.
It also used the threat of punishment in order to conscript new members. The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) used to patrol the Shankill neighbourhood in Belfast. Criminals were warned or reported to the official police. [99] The UDA and UVF are responsible for most loyalist punishment attacks. [100]
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 ...
The Strand Bar Bombing was a bomb attack on a pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 12 April 1975, during the Troubles.The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a loyalist paramilitary group, threw an improvised bomb into a pub frequented by Catholics in the Short Strand neighbourhood, killing six civilians and injuring about fifty others.
The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) was formed in Belfast in 1966, declaring "war" on the Irish Republican Army (IRA). [8] Until 1971, however, its actions were few and it "scarcely existed in an organisational sense". [9] The British Army was deployed in Northern Ireland following the August 1969 riots, which are usually seen as the start of the ...