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	Gusty Spence
		Augustus ("Gusty") Spence (born 28 June, 1933) is a former member of the Ulster Volunteer Force and a leading loyalist politician.
		Spence was born in the Shankill Road area of Belfast and took various manual jobs in the area until joining the British Army in 1957 as a member of the Royal Ulster Rifles.
		Spence became involved with the UVF not long after their foundation in 1966.
	www.spock.com /Gusty-Spence (129 words)

	INCORE:ECRD:Gusty Spence
		In Crumlin Road Prison Spence's close friendship with a Catholic prison officer contrasted with his often strained relationship with self-proclaimed loyalist prison officers, who felt that Spence had brought `their' cause into disrepute.
		Spence's entry into prison had a similarly transformative effect, propelling him from a political environment where, broadly speaking, he supported the source of authority, to one in which he was increasingly at odds.
		Spence's loyalist beliefs are not adequately explored in the early part of the book, which leaves the reader mystified as to the reasons why Spence would be prepared to be involved in paramilitary activity long before the modern-day Troubles began.
	www.incore.ulst.ac.uk /services/ecrd/new/reviews/454.html (519 words)

	Gusty Spence - Politics.ie Wiki
		Augustus 'Gusty' Spence was born on 28 June 1933, in the Shankill Road area of Belfast and was educated locally before leaving school at an early age to take up employment in various manual occupations.
		In 1957 Spence joined the British Army and served in the Royal Ulster Rifles (and antecedant of the Royal Irish Regiment) until ill-health forced him to leave in 1961 to return to civilian life.
		By 1977 however his views had undergone a dramatic change and in a public statement he called for reconciliation in Northern Ireland and condemned the use of violence to secure political objectives on the grounds that it was counter-productive.
	www.politics.ie /wiki/index.php?title=Gusty_Spence (398 words)

	Newshound: Links to daily newspaper articles about Northern Ireland
		News of an authorized biography of Gusty (a one-name, loyalist cult celebrity), the one man who knows (if anyone does) who was or wasn't involved in anything that ever happened, likely sent shivers down more than a few spines.
		We are feted with the incredible details of Gusty's impoverished upbringing on the loyalist Shankill Road, as well as the behind-the-wire experiences and political evolution of this driving force behind the UVF of the late-'60s, early-'70s.
		Gusty's contribution to the development of progressive unionist politics and his role in the Northern peace process is undeniably crucial.
	www.nuzhound.com /articles/arts2001/reviews/TL_gusty_spence_rev_11-8-01.htm (850 words)

	Gusty Spence Information
		Augustus ("Gusty") Spence (born 28th June 1933) is a former member of the Ulster Volunteer Force and a leading loyalist politician.
		Spence was born in the Shankill Road area of Belfast and took various manual jobs in the area until joining the British Army in 1957 as a member of the Royal Ulster Rifles.
		Spence became involved with the UVF not long after their foundation in 1965.
	www.bookrags.com /Gusty_Spence (217 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Gusty Spence
		Spence was born in the Shankill Road area of Belfast and took various manual jobs in the area until joining the British Army in 1957 as a member of the Royal Ulster Rifles.
		Spence remains a member of the PUP as well as a community worker on the Shankill, although he has scaled back his active role given his advancing years.
		We are feted with the incredible details of Gusty's impoverished upbringing on the loyalist Shankill Road, as well as the behind-the-wire experiences and political evolution of this driving force behind the UVF of the late-'60s, early-'70s.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gusty-Spence (827 words)

	New Statesman - Out of Shankill
		Gusty Spence is, as his "disciple" David Ervine says, the alpha and the omega of Northern Ireland's violence.
		Spence's own family was a strange mixture of conformism and heterodoxy.
		Gusty Spence's story - or at least its latter parts - exemplifies how unfair that view is. If his world is doomed, his example may help ensure a dignified demise, and the hope of something better beyond the grave.
	www.newstatesman.com /200202040053 (778 words)

	CAIN: People: Biographies of People Prominent During 'the Troubles' - S
		In 1957 Spence joined the British Army and served in the Royal Ulster Rifles until ill-health forced him to leave in 1961 to return to civilian life.
		A year later in October 1966 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a young Catholic barman, a charge he was always to deny, outside a public house in the Shankill Road area.
		Within the Maze Prison Spence assumed the position of UVF commander and on the outside he emerged as something of a hero to militant loyalists.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /othelem/people/biography/speople.htm (3210 words)

	The peace warriors \| The Guardian \| Guardian Unlimited
		Gusty Spence was doing time - convicted of the murder of a Catholic barman - and watched the young men pouring into prison.
		From Spence's perspective, the killings seemed disastrously sectarian and were handing nationalists a raison d'être.
		Spence was released in 1984 and Hutchinson in 1988.
	www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,,291887,00.html (1842 words)

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		I know that Gusty was sincere when he uttered those words, and I know that many within the loyalist community were sincere when they said “Spence spoke for me, too”.
		Commenting on the significance of Spence’s cease-fire speech, David Ervine said, “Here was the alpha and omega, perceived by many to be the first of the violent men of this recent era, reading out a statement that pulled the curtain down, or we hoped would pull the curtain down, on a brutal and awful past”.
		Gusty Spence’s words were pregnant with hope for the future, pregnant with the hope that the peace process would give birth to a new progressive and democratic loyalism.
	www.his2rie.dk /storage/388/2769.doc (838 words)

	Decades after they met in jail, Gusty Spence remembers his protegé - Local & National - News - Belfast Telegraph
		Spence, the UVF leader, was there for murder; Ervine had been caught transporting a bomb.
		In the politics of the jail, Spence said Ervine was "in the front row", and that he "didn't do hard time".
		What Spence means is that he used his time, those five years in prison - " always probing, always wanting to know why".
	www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk /news/local-national/article2145942.ece (742 words)

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		The history of loyalism since the declaration of the cease-fires testifies to the fact that there have been many within loyalism and unionism who have sought to ensure that the new loyalist “peace child” would be either still-born or killed in infancy.
		None of us, least of all Gusty Spence, expected nationalists to become the tame political playmates of constitutional unionism; nor did we expect Sinn Fein to joyfully embrace the principle of consent and sing Rule Britannia as they moved into constitutional republicanism.
		A careful reading of Gusty Spence’s speech will show that the veteran loyalist still expected that there would be “battles in the future”.
	www.sind.dk /storage/388/2769.doc (838 words)

	Red Action Discussion Forum - Fash divided on Loyalists? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gusty "was" not a Communist, however, Ervine senior was.
		Gusty just rejected Unionism while in prison because he thought Paisley was a knob.
		Gusty Spence attempted to blame the conflict on the Southern establishment backing the IRA against the protestant working class.
	www.redaction.org /forum/showthread.php?threadid=1785&pagenumber=4 (3170 words)

	Newshound: Links to daily newspaper articles about Northern Ireland
		Soon after his life-sentence conviction for the political murder of Peter Ward in 1966, Gusty began to question not only the historical and political circumstances that led to his imprisonment, but also the need for a physical-force strategy to win the war.
		At a time when people were murdered for less, Gusty reached across the political divide, opened doors, challenged minds and shattered taboos.
		Garland says Gusty retired from his command as the UVF's Long Kesh CO in 1978.
	nuzhound.com /articles/arts2001/reviews/TL_gusty_spence_rev_11-8-01.htm (850 words)

	Irish Democrat : Book reviews : Sympathetic treatment of a 'complex' loyalist
		Garland makes no pretence at distancing and the repeated use of the familiar 'Gusty' in place of 'Spence' signals his genuine empathy for his complex subject whose self-reverence is allowed to permeate the narrative.
		This is all the more startling given that the influence of Spence on that organisation in recent decades, direct and indirect, amounts to the biography's raison d'être.
		Quotations of Spence's political opinions are provided by Garland to establish his credentials as a key leadership figure who earned the respect of many republicans.
	www.irishdemocrat.co.uk /reviews/spence-rev (1029 words)

	BU Today \| Archives \| Forecasting Space Storms
		In addition, on at least one occasion astronauts on the International Space Station had to take cover in a designated safe area while their craft was bombarded with dangerous levels of high-energy charged particles.
		Spence’s team is developing three pairs of particle instruments that will be sent into the radiation belts on two unmanned spacecraft as part of the NASA mission scheduled to launch in 2012.
		Indeed, while Spence’s team works on probes that will be getting data on particles in the Earth’s radiation belts, CISM will be working with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration to gather data from the Advance Composition Explorer (ACE), a NASA satellite that monitors the solar winds about a million miles away from Earth.
	www.bu.edu /phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=4&id=40528 (738 words)

	The Ulster Volunteer Force (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Spence and two others were convicted of these killings.
		He quotes Spence in support of his belief, that nevertheless, this did mean that the organisation was fighting Catholics.
		Spence and others found time to reflect on all these things in prison.
	www.ulsternation.org.uk /ulster_volunteer_force.htm (969 words)

	Ulster Volunteer Force - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The group was concentrated around East Antrim, County Armagh and the Shankill district of Belfast.
		The murder of a Belfast barman (because of his religion) in June 1966 led to the first leader of the group, Augustus 'Gusty' Spence, being arrested and sentenced to 20 years.
		The UVF is also considered responsible for a series of attacks on utilities installations in 1969, in the expectation that the IRA would be blamed and unionists would become even more strongly opposed to the reforms of O'Neill's government.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/UVF (862 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
		Spence assumed the role of commander of the UVF prisoners while serving 18 years of a life sentence for the June 1966 murder of a Catholic barman.
		In 1994, he was entrusted by the Combined Loyalist Military Command, the loyalist umbrella group, to announce its ceasefire due to his reputation as one of the founding fathers of modern-day loyalism.
		Spence would become a strong advocate for the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement and remains a member of the PUP.
	www.tkb.org /KeyLeader.jsp?memID=262 (252 words)

	Arm Rúnda na Gaeilge - leis an nGinearál Aoidhmín Mac Mórna :: January :: 2007
		Is léir agus is follas go bhfuil buíochas tuillte ag Ervine, chomh maith leis an bhfear ba mhó a d’fhág a lorg air, mar atá, Gusty Spence, as an gcur chuige nua a thug siad isteach i ndíoscúrsa na hAontachtóireachta agus na Dílseoireachta.
		Is é an freagra a thug siad do Ghusty Spence ná nach raibh ina chuid aislingí-sean ach seafóid gan tábhacht, gan úimléid, gan substaint.
		Is é an dearcadh do-athraithe a bhíonn ag na Dílseoirí ná nach bhfuil in aislingí nua polaitiúla den chineál a bhíodh ag Spence agus ag Ervine ach cathú an Diabhail.
	gaeilgefaoithalamh.blogs.ie /2007/01/15 (318 words)

	Scotch-Irish / Ulster-Scots Forums > Failings, yes, but a fascinating individual history
		News of an authorized biography of Gusty (a one-name, loyalist cult celebrity), the one man who knows (if anyone does) who was or wasn't involved in anything that ever happened, likely sent shivers down more than a few spines.
		And Garland is not hesitant to let Gusty make his own case.
		Gusty's contribution to the development of progressive unionist politics and his role in the Northern peace process is undeniably crucial.
	www.scotchirish.net /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t1590.html (884 words)

	last minute Gusty_Spence - last-minute-report.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
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		Augustus ("Gusty") Spence (born 28 June 1933) is a former member of the Ulster Volunteer Force and a leading loyalist politician.
		Spence became involved with the UVF not long after their foundation in 1966.
	www.last-minute-report.com /Gusty_Spence (415 words)

	Irish Tribesman: Paisley still trading on fears of gullible people
		The republican movement had formally abandoned its border campaign in 1962 and was moving towards political action through tenants' associations, housing committees, demonstrations and protest marches.
		The police quickly rounded up Gusty Spence's infamous murder gang and the ring leaders got life.
		Gusty Spence was openly advocating a ceasefire from 1977 on.
	irishtribesman.blogspot.com /2006/07/paisley-still-trading-on-fears-of.html (931 words)

	Sunday Herald (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But Spence isn't just any Shankill Protestant, he's the founding father of loyalism, the man who set up the Ulster Volunteer Force in its present incarnation in a pub in 1966, just a few minutes walk away from where his house now lies ransacked.
		To attack the home of Spence, a highly intelligent, deeply politicised man whose personality is a curious mix of avuncular bonhomie and latent terrorist menace, was quite simply an act of patricide for the loyalist community.
		Put Gusty Spence alongside the likes of Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair and you are looking at a potent representation of what has happened to loyalism.
	www.sundayherald.com /print10492 (1571 words)

	The UVF (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As this book shows, UVF volunteers were responsible for a series of heinous crimes against ordinary people, some of whom were just unfortunate enough to be in ‘the wrong place at the wrong time’.
		This has been recognised by Gusty Spence himself who expressed ‘abject and true remorse’ on the day that the Combined Loyalist Military Command declared their cease-fire in October 1994.
		I agree that we should be nice to journalists and I am impressed by the efforts made in recent years by David Irvine, Billy Hutchinson and Gusty Spence of the PUP.
	www.ulsternation.org.uk /uvf%20book%20review.htm (1460 words)

	RTÉ News: UVF decision on weapons welcomed
		Morning Ireland: Tommie Gorman, Northern Editor, speculates about the announcement expected today from the illegal loyalist paramilitary group
		News At One: Tommie Gorman, Northern Editor, speaks to ex UVF prisoners Gusty Spence and Tom Roberts
		Six One News: Tommie Gorman, Northern Editor, reports that the loyalist paramilitary organisation has allegedly put its weapons beyond reach
	www.rte.ie /news/2007/0503/uvf.html (609 words)

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	paramilitari
		Fu nel 1966 che la UVF e il suo leader Gusty Spence (vedi foto in basso) diventarono famosi.
		Il 26 giugno, dopo essersi resa responsabile della morte di tre civili, due cattolici e un protestante senza alcun collegamento con l'IRA, la UVF uccise per mano di Spence Peter Ward, un giovane barman cattolico che lavorava in un pub di Shankill Rd. Spence venne accusato dell'omicidio e fu condannato a 20 anni di prigione.
		Fu il leader Gusty Spence a fare l'annuncio dichiarandosi sinceramente pentito per tutte le vittime innocenti causate dalla violenza lealista.
	www.irlandaonline.com /idn/paramilitari/uvf.htm (666 words)

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