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  Underground Vegas Film
View the article on the UVF and the UVF Showcase that appeared in Las Vegas CityLife.
The UVF article in the 944 magazine came out.
All rights reserved Copyright © 2005 UVF Commission
www.uvf.bataluer.com   (287 words)

  
  Ulster Volunteer Force - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The UVF, in its announcements to the media, claimed its violence was a reaction to the violence of the newly formed Provisional IRA (PIRA).
The UVF was also to blame for the deaths of twelve civilians in an attack on October 2, 1974.
In the 1980s the UVF was greatly reduced by a series of informers, starting in 1983 with supergrass Joseph Bennett's information which led to the arrest of fourteen senior figures.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/UVF   (1931 words)

  
 NEWSHOUND: Links to daily newspaper articles about Northern Ireland
For the authors, the UVF is essentially an autonomous extreme reaction of the loyalist population to Irish nationalism.
However, to claim as the authors have done that the UVF is a political organisation is horrendous insult to the Catholic population of Northern Ireland and indeed to the many Protestant victims of this vile, disgusting, fanatical, racist organisation.
The fact that the murderers of Anne Marie Wright were accepted on the UVF wing in the "H" Blocks is conclusive proof that the UVF are based on, and controlled by racist vermin, who are a danger to everyone, especially the British Government to whom they profess such "loyalty".
www.nuzhound.com /bookforum/uvf.php   (861 words)

  
 Ulster Volunteer Force   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The re-established UVF was opposed to the reforms that were being considered in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The UVF is also believed to have been responsible for the greatest loss of life in a single day when it planted bombs in Dublin and Monaghan on 17 May 1974 killing 33 people.
During the 1990s the UVF had a particularly active unit in the Portadown area of Northern Ireland which was responsible for the killing of many republicans.
www.houstonpk.freeserve.co.uk /uvfpg.htm   (736 words)

  
 Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The UVF is a Loyalist terrorist group formed in 1966 to oppose liberal reforms in Northern Ireland that members feared would lead to unification of Ireland.
UVF members have been linked to recent racial attacks on minorities; however, the UVF leadership reportedly did not authorize these assaults.
The UVF is a relatively disciplined organization with a centralized command.
www.fas.org /irp/world/para/uvf.htm   (272 words)

  
 South Belfast Friends of the Somme Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In charge of the UVF was to be Lt General Sir George Richardson, aged sixty-six and by July 1913 he had established himself in Belfast and was firmly in control.
When a volunteered joined the UVF his first acquisition would be a small bronze badge with the red hand of Ulster on it and the famous motto ‘For God and Ulster’;.
The UVF Cavalry -a section of the Enniskillen Horse at the trot and
www.belfastsomme.com /uvf.htm   (675 words)

  
 Ireland's OWN: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The UDA and the UVF are in favour of the peace agreement.
That is the group which broke away from the UVF in 1996, led by Billy Wright, known as "King Rat".
The UVF is also associated with the Progressive Unionist Party, which sits in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
irelandsown.net /EamonnMcCann.htm   (1357 words)

  
 UVF man rewarded with contracts, claims dad - Local & National - News - Belfast Telegraph
Police Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan may be asked to follow up her collusion report by investigating a UVF boss who was allegedly given highly paid contracts with the police and Army.
Mr McIlwaine believes the UVF leader linked to the murder of his son and Andrew Robb was rewarded by being given lucrative contracts.
There are different accounts about whether the UVF boss was present when the teenagers were killed on a remote road outside Tandragee, but he is believed to have helped the killers dispose of evidence.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk /news/local-national/article2241981.ece   (517 words)

  
 The Heights
UVF students raised an unprecedented $18 million from limited partners to invest in the high-risk/high-reward world of venture capital.
UVF, an $18-million education-based private equity fund managed by students, recently established an arrangement to work with a select group of Wharton students.
In addition to being the largest fund of its kind, UVF is the first fund for which students raise all the capital and the first student-run fund that has a traditional limited-partner relationship with its investors.
www.bcheights.com /channel/index.cfm?event=displayPressRelease&synid=121514   (718 words)

  
 Protestant_People
The UVF was banned later that year by the Prime Minister.
In October of 1994 the UVF declared a ceasefire.
Since 1912 until the present day the UVF has produced Volunteers both men and women who bravely gave their lives so that the protestant people can live in peace and have their religion, liberties and freedoms defended.
groups.msn.com /ProtestantPeople/uvfhistory.msnw   (192 words)

  
 Loyalists rule out surrender of arms | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
The UVF commander added that the organisation had not spoken to General De Chastelain's Independent International Commission on Decommissioning for almost four years.
The UVF has made clear there is only one link we will use between ourselves and the Irish government and that is the Dublin trade unionist Chris Hudson.
He said the UVF would continue to attack the remnants of the Loyalist Volunteer Force despite calls for an end to the feud that has cost four lives since the start of the summer.
www.guardian.co.uk /Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1583112,00.html   (680 words)

  
 UVF says the war is over at last | Politics | The Observer
UVF commanders have spent the past six months discussing its future with several thousand of its rank and file across the north of Ireland.
The UVF leader said: 'The loyalist dissidents are gone, the republican dissidents are in disarray and heavily infiltrated by the state.
The UVF commander said that it was not collaborating directly with the other loyalist movement, the Ulster Defence Association, to end all loyalist terrorist activity.
observer.guardian.co.uk /politics/story/0,,1708038,00.html   (578 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Northern Ireland | What is the UVF?
It was the murder of barman Peter Ward, the third victim, which brought the UVF and its leader Gusty Spence to public attention.
By the mid-70s a vicious UVF unit known as the Shankill Butchers was engaged in horrific sectarian killings.
In May 1974 the UVF was suspected of planting bombs in Dublin and Monaghan killing 33 people and in 1975 they shot dead three members of the Miami Show Band.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/4244082.stm   (605 words)

  
 Newshound: Daily Northern Ireland news catalog - Irish News article
He later insisted his comments had referred to the UVF and that he did not believe it intended any return to violence.
In June 1994 IRA man Martin Doherty was killed after he stopped the UVF from planting an 18lb Powergel bomb inside a Dublin bar during a Sinn Féin function.
In 1996 the UVF left two 10lb Powergel bombs at Dublin airport in response to the IRA bombing of Canary Wharf in London.
www.nuzhound.com /articles/irish_news/arts2006/aug9_questions_UVF_cease-fire.php   (507 words)

  
 'UVF collusion report must lead to inquiry for there to be justice' - Local & National - News - Belfast Telegraph
AUGUST 2003: Prominent north Belfast UVF man Mark Haddock is named in court as a prime suspect in the Monkstown attack.
The homes of a number of his relatives are attacked in a co-ordinated intimidiation campaign that leads to questions being raised about the UVF ceasefire.
The murder bid is widely viewed as proof that the UVF has finally accepted the truth of the informer allegations against him.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk /news/local-national/article2160231.ece   (1098 words)

  
 fenian32: Ervine: my secret past in the UVF
And next week she will offer an opinion to the IMC that says the UVF are "supportive of the peace process" and pose no threat to it.
Dawn Purvis says her delegation also wants to outline to the IMC the "structure of the PUP" and address the "misperception" that the PUP/UVF relationship is similar or the same to the link between Sinn Fein and the IRA.
He did not describe it, but he was "provost marshal" in east Belfast, in charge of internal discipline inside the UVF in that part of the city.
fenian32.livejournal.com /3116576.html   (1592 words)

  
 When Will We Hear The UVF’s Real Plan?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
But it is obvious from the history of Ulster unionism, including the illegal activities of the first UVF and its subsequent co-option into the state forces, that there has always been a dependant relationship between unionism and the use or threat of extra-parliamentary violence.
The UVF has also been the driving force behind the most recent feud with the LVF which has resulted in the loss of several lives and a number of individuals being seriously wounded.
That is, that the UVF might merely be doing a bit of ‘house-keeping’ within loyalist working class areas (indeed, the purge of the LVF in Garnerville appears to have been fairly ‘popular’).
www.dannymorrison.com /articles/uvfplan.php   (1002 words)

  
 UVF split threatens loyalist ceasefire on eve of march
His remarks came after the UVF command announcement that it had "disbanded" the rogue Portadown unit of the UVF.
The decision to expel the Portadown unit was taken in response to growing tensions between the UVF leadership in Belfast and more militant members in mid-Ulster.
UVF membership in mid-Ulster, the heartland of loyalism, is estimated at 300-400.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/08/05/nuvf04.html   (441 words)

  
 CAIN: UVF: Statement by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), 15 July 1993
The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) issued a statement, via the offices of Ulster Television, on 15 July 1993.
The UVF avails itself of this opportunity to state clearly and without reservation that the entire operation was from its conception to its successful conclusion, planned and carried out by our volunteers aided by no outside bodies.
To suggest that the UVF were not, or are not, capable of operating in the manner outlined in the programme is tempting fate to a dangerous degree."
cain.ulst.ac.uk /othelem/organ/uvf/uvf150793.htm   (333 words)

  
 ::: u.tv :::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Haddock had been living under a UVF death threat from November 2005 when it was revealed that he had been an informer for 16 years.
He was reputedly the UVF leader in Mount Vernon in north Belfast, but was awaiting a judge`s ruling on his trial for the attempted murder of Trevor Gowdy.
Even though the UVF are the main suspects for the attempted assassination, the organisation`s chief political adviser tonight insisted it did not sanction the shooting.
u.tv /newsroom/indepth.asp?pt=n&id=73859   (600 words)

  
 Ulster Volunteer Force
But the men of the UVF were engaged in a more parochial conflict on their return.
During the 1980s the UVF was undermined by a series of informers whose evidence led to many members appearing in court.
The UVF now has a political voice, the Progressive Unionist Party, which prefers to say that it has "an insight into UVF thinking".
www.ptbfb.50megs.com /uvf.html   (638 words)

  
 RTÉ News: Former Loyalist politician blames UVF for attack
A former Loyalist politician formerly associated with the UVF has accused the paramilitary group of trying to murder him in a gun attack early today.
Jackie Mahood is a former member of the PUP team which took part in the process that led to the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.
He alleges that the UVF is targeting anyone who does not agree with its political agenda.
www.rte.ie /news/2000/0724/uvf.html   (235 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Northern Ireland | Hain says UVF ceasefire is over
The decision to "specify" the UVF and Red Hand Commando (RHC) was made by Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain.
The UVF was set up in the late 1960s to fight resurgent Irish nationalism, but it used the name of the original UVF which was created by Sir Edward Carson in 1912 to fight home rule.
He said the actions of the UVF in respect of their ongoing feud, along with the attacks against the security forces on 10 and 11 September amounted to a breakdown in their ceasefire.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/4243652.stm   (584 words)

  
 Searchlight for Beginners: Sonia Hochfelder and the UVF Death Squads
Rifkin, Rowe, Evans and Reakes have incurred the displeasure of UVF Brigade Staff over this; not a situation particularly good for the future health and prospects of the individuals concerned – their activity in certain fields, such as politics, revolutionary mobilising of the glorious proletarian masses, eating and breathing may shortly be permanently discontinued.
That such an obscure group as the CPE-ML appeared in the UVF's sights shortly after Hochfelder began consorting with fascists in late 1974 is hardly coincidental.
Not until I had publicly made known to the Left her relationship with Brady and speculated in general terms about her 1970's activities in 1993 [39] was a very half-hearted attempt to paint her as an anti-fascist 'mole', with little believable detail.
www.searchlight.org.uk /o-hara/uvf.html   (1231 words)

  
 NUMBER 9 LOYAL -- LOYAL AND TRUE
The outbreak of World War I and the suspension of Home Rule resulted in the UVF becoming the 36th (Ulster) Division of the British Army.
The UVF was re-established in 1966 by Gusty Spence, amongst others.
It immediately declared war on the IRA but was banned by Prime Minister Terence O'Neill in June of that year.
www.freewebs.com /9loyal/uvf.htm   (331 words)

  
 UVF suspect faces racist attack charge-Newspapers-Sunday Times-Ireland-TimesOnline
A UVF suspect is expected to be charged this week in connection with a racist attack in south Belfast.
David Ervine of the Progressive Unionist party, the political wing of the UVF, denied that it is a racist organisation.
The attack to which the UVF suspect is linked forensically happened on December 20, when a gang of up to four men broke into a house at Broadway Parade.
www.timesonline.co.uk /tol/newspapers/sunday_times/ireland/article992600.ece   (797 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Knife attacker murders UVF gun-runner
Lindsay Robb, a former Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) commander, was sitting in a car waiting for a friend to return from shopping in Gartloch Road, Ruchazie, when a man with a knife attacked him.
A recent attempt by the UVF to wipe out a rival loyalist paramilitary group, the Loyalist Volunteer Force, has sparked a bitter feud.
Robb served four years in jail in Scotland and at Maghaberry Prison in Northern Ireland before becoming the first member of the UVF to be freed under the early prisoner release scheme, which formed part of the Good Friday Agreement.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=3342006   (825 words)

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