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	Ulster Volunteer Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 agreed to a ceasefire in October 1994.
		According to the University of Ulster's Sutton database, the UVF was responsible for 426 killings during the Troubles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ulster_Volunteer_Force (1838 words)

	ulster volunteer force - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		The original UVF formed in January 1913 by Edward Carson and James Craig as a militia in the tensions surrounding the potential success of the third Home Rule campaign.
		Another group was responsible, with help from members of the security forces, for the bombs in Dublin and Monaghan of May 17, 1974 when 33 people were killed and it was certainly to blame for the October 2, 1974 deaths of twelve civilians as well as a number of other attacks.
		In the 1980s the UVF was greatly reduced by a series of informers, starting in 1983 with Joseph Bennett's information leading to the arrest of fourteen senior figures..
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Ulster-Volunteer-Force (704 words)

	Ulster Volunteer Force (1912) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ulster Volunteer Force was a unionist militia founded in 1913 to block Home Rule for Ireland.
		A modern loyalist paramilitary group founded in 1966 shares the same name (UVF), and lays claims to a direct descendancy from the older organisation, but there were no organisational links between the two.
		The original UVF was formed by Edward Carson and James Craig as a Unionist militia in the tensions surrounding the potential success of the third Home Rule campaign.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ulster_Volunteer_Force_(1912) (386 words)

	Ulster Volunteer Force
		A bomb in a Belfast bar that killed fifteen people in December 1971 is attributed to the UVF as is the brutal murder of the SDLP[?] politician Paddy Wilson[?] in 1972.
		The UVF joined the Combined Loyalist Military Command[?] in 1990 and indicated its acceptence of the moves towards peace.
		The strength of the UVF is uncertain, it peaked in the early 1970s at possibly over 1,000 but its current strength is around 150 activists - those members prepared to commit terrorist acts.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/uv/UVF.html (628 words)

	CAIN: Abstracts of Organisations - 'U'
		The Ulster Unionist Party was also known as the Official Unionist Party during the 1970s because of the fact that it represented the remnants of the Unionist Party which governed Northern Ireland at Stormont between 1921 and 1972.
		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 innocent people.
		The UVF declared a ceasefire on 13 October 1994; the announcement of the ceasefire by the CLMC was made by 'Gusty' Spence.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /othelem/organ/uorgan.htm (7200 words)

	UVF
		Many UVF men joined the 36th Ulster Division of the British Army and died in large numbers during the Battle of the Somme in July 1916.
		By the mid-70s a vicious UVF unit known as the Shankill Butchers was engaged in horrific sectarian killings.
		In October 1975 the UVF was undermined when soldiers and police swooped on houses in Belfast and East Antrim and arrested 26 men.
	www.proddygirl.co.uk /uvf.htm (470 words)

	Ulster Volunteer Force
		The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is a Loyalist paramilitary group that was formed in 1966.
		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-Scots & Irish Unionist Resource - Scottish UVF - Ulster Volunteer Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This document was known as the Ulster Covenant and it was based on the old Scottish solemn league and covenant of 1580, which established the principals of Presbyterianism in Scotland.
		In January 1913 the Ulster Unionist Council had united the various groups of volunteers, which had been merging into a single body to be know as the Ulster Volunteer Force.
		The Irish Grand Lodge had backed the formation of the Ulster Volunteer Force to the hilt, but the circumstances in Scotland were different, on the one hand the Scottish Grand Lodge would want to be seen as reacting responsibly towards what was an extremely grave situation.
	www.ulster-scots.co.uk /docs/terrorism/scottishuvf.htm (1910 words)

	The Ulster Volunteer Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Garland traces the growth of the UVF after the outbreak of the present troubles and its short-lived relationship with Tara.
		The first political group to speak for the UVF was the Ulster Loyalist Front in 1973.
		In this, Garland, Spence and the ‘new thinkers’ in the UVF of the mid-seventies were spot-on.
	www.ulsternation.org.uk /ulster_volunteer_force.htm (969 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Ulster Volunteer Force, along with its fellow Loyalist paramilitary organizations, was formed in response to the Roman Catholic members of Ireland who have pushed for an Ireland independent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
		The Ulster Volunteer Force was re-formed in the 1960s to combat the threat of these paramilitary Republican groups, such as the Irish Republican Army.
		The Ulster Volunteer Force was founded as a death squad committed to attacking Catholics living in Northern Ireland.
	www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=124 (862 words)

	Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		The UVF’s goal is to maintain Northern Ireland’s status as part of the United Kingdom; to that end, it has killed some 550 persons since 1966.
		The UVF is a relatively disciplined organization with a centralized command.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/para/uvf.htm (272 words)

	Loyalist Volunteer Force : LVF
		The Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) are an extremist Loyalist terror grouping in Northern Ireland which broke away from the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)and was led by the late Billy Wright.
		Billy Wright was the charismatic leader of the mid-Ulster brigade of the UVF.
		Internal differences between Wright and the UVF's brigade staff in Belfast came to a head in July 1996 during the Drumcree[?] dispute.
	www.fastload.org /lv/LVF.html (275 words)

	Ulster Volunteer Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Detectives believe a gang was involved in the suspected Ulster Volunteer Force attack last Tuesday on one of its former commanders.
		He is believed to have been shot by the Ulster Volunteer Force.
		It is believed he was shot by former associates in the Ulster Volunteer Force.
	www.wikiverse.org /ulster-volunteer-force (754 words)

	BBC - History - Wars - 1916 Easter Rising - Profiles - Ulster Volunteer Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The overall effect of raising and arming the force was measurably to boost the level of unionist confidence and defiance and to make it much more problematical for Westminster to impose Dublin rule on Ulster - to attempt to do so would inevitably result in substantial casualties.
		In World War I, Carson encouraged the UVF to enlist in the British Army, a process facilitated by the War Office’s decision to create the 36th (Ulster) Division specifically for its members.
		A Northern Ireland police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary was established in mid 1922; in 1927, 49 per cent of its members had belonged to the USC.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/war/easterrising/profiles/po20.shtml (485 words)

	Northern Ireland: Political Flags (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bryson and McCartney also mention another flag for the UVF which is 'crimson or maroon in colour and bears the cap badge of the UVF, with the motto 'For God and Ulster':
		This Ulster national flag is the St Patrick's saltire overlaid on the blue field of the St Andrew's saltire.
		From http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/organ/uorgan.htm, the Ulster Vanguard movement was essentially a political pressure group within unionism.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/gb}ni.html (1535 words)

	Ireland's OWN: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		THE BATTLE is between two Loyalist paramilitary groups-the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).
		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".
	irelandsown.net /EamonnMcCann.htm (1357 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On the night before he was laid to rest, a full Guard Of Honour from Belfast Brigade, Ulster Volunteer Force, enacted their time honoured duty of maintaining a silent vigil at Norman’s side, whilst a firing party discharged a volley of shots to his memory.
		Norman again returned to Ulster’s shores and the love of his family, but within days of his return, his sense of duty to Ulster and Her people drew him back to ‘Active Service’.
		His ability to organise and control discipline within the Ulster Volunteers, set him aside from other members, this quality was recognised at the highest level and Norman was promoted to the rank of Brigade Staff, Provost Marshall.
	www.greengairsthistle.com /sayers.htm (1280 words)

	Loyalist Volunteer Force
		The Loyalist Volunteer Force is an extremist terrorist group formed in 1996 as a splinter of the mainstream loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).
		The LVF is composed of hardliners formerly associated with the UVF who refused to accept the loyalist cease-fire.
		The LVF is believed to be responsible for a number of bombings and sectarian killings, including the killing of Sean Brown in Bellaghy in May, and Seamus Dillon and Eddie Treanor in December 1997.
	www.ict.org.il /organizations/orgdet.cfm?orgid=72 (482 words)

	Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)
		The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a Loyalist paramilitary group formed in 1966, takes its name from the UVF of the first World War.
		The Ulster Volunteer Force was mobilised as a Protestant/Unionist militia in 1912 to oppose the Home Rule campaign for a separate Irish parliament.
		The UVF's political wing is the Progressive Unionist Party, which states that it has "an insight into UVF thinking".
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/para/uvf.htm (208 words)

	Ulster Volunteer Force
		Spence was convicted of Ward's murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison.The new UVF opposed the liberal reforms being introduced by PM O'Neill.
		The UVF and Red Hand Commando supported the signing of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and maintained a ceasefire from 1994 until the autumn of 2005.
		According to the Sutton database of deaths at the University of Ulster's CAIN project, the RHC have killed 13 people, including 12 civilians and one of its own members.
	www.irishrepublicanarmy.info /UVF.html (638 words)

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		ULSTER'S TWIN FORCES ******** From the Andersonstown News (West Belfast) August 22, 1992 ****** U.S. reporter Jim Dee has been talking to members of the Loyalist paramilitary groups UVF (Ulster Volunteer Force) and the UFF (Ulster** Freedom Fighters).
		Q: The UVF claimed responsibility for the killing of Terry McConnville in Portadown.
		Now, the SDLP does not condone violence, although at the end of the day their objective may be the same, we wouldn't deny that, but they'll work within the law.
	www.etext.org /Politics/Workers.World/WW.Essays/uvf.interview (1956 words)

	Ulster Will Fight
		The Ulster Unionist Council was formed in 1905, linking the Orange Order and Unionist associations throughout the province.
		In 1913, the Ulster Unionist Council announced the formation of the Ulster Volunteer Force.
		With home-rule legislation in abeyance during the First World War, members of the Ulster Volunteer Force formed the 36th (Ulster) Division, suffering heavy casualties at the battle of the Somme in 1916.
	www.irelandseye.com /aarticles/history/events/dates/ulster.shtm (656 words)

	Britain ends truce with Protestant group \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		The British governor, Peter Hain, said he has received sufficient evidence that the Ulster Volunteer Force – an underground group supposed to be bolstering Northern Ireland's Good Friday peace accord with a 1994 cease-fire – committed four killings this summer and launched multiple gun and grenade attacks this week against the police and British army.
		Police commanders said the Ulster Volunteer Force and a larger Protestant paramilitary group, the Ulster Defense Association, both attacked police and British troops with assault-rifle fire and homemade grenades in what have been the worst Protestant riots for nearly a decade.
		The Ulster Defense Association, in hopes of avoiding any punitive sanctions from Britain, announced yesterday afternoon its estimated 3,000 members would "avoid any confrontation on the streets and steer away from any acts of violence." It conceded that the rioting only had damaged its own impoverished Protestant power bases.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050914/news_1n14nire.html (456 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Ulster Volunteer Force
		The original UVF was formed by Edward Carson and James Craig as a militia in the tensions surrounding the potential success of the third Home Rule campaign.
		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.
		These attacks were carried out in conjunction with the Ulster Protestant Volunteers, another paramilitary organisation established by the Reverend Ian Paisley.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/UVF (791 words)

	Ulster Volunteer Force in TutorGig Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The UVF was also 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 tentative reforms of Terence O'Neill's government.
		The group was proscribed in July 1966, but this was lifted in April 1974 in an effort to bring the UVF into the democratic process.
		In the 1980s the UVF was greatly reduced by a series of informers, starting in 1983 with Joseph Bennett's information which led to the arrest of fourteen senior figures.
	www.tutorgig.com /ed/UVF (980 words)

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