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| | Terrorism: Q & A | Northern Ireland Loyalist Paramilitaries (U.K., extremists) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Loyalists want Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom, and many are willing to support the use of violence to keep the Protestant-majority province, also known as Ulster, under British rule. |
 | | An independent state, the Republic of Ireland, was created in the islands predominantly Catholic south, and the six Ulster counties in the north, with a Protestant majority, remained part of the United Kingdom. |
 | | A pair of UVF bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, both in the Republic of Ireland, on May 17, 1974, that killed 33 civilians, making this day the deadliest of the conflict. |
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