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Sunningdale collapsed following the Ulster Workers' Strike which cut water and electricity supplies to many homes, and the failure of the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Merlyn Rees and the British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, to defend the power-sharing executive.
It has long been the major challenger to the major unionist party, the Ulster Unionist Party (known for a time in the 1970s and 1980s as the Official Unionist Party (OUP) to distinguish it from the then multitude of other unionist partes, some set up by deposed former leaders).
Vast crowds attended mass rallies addressed by then UUP leader James Molyneaux and Paisley at which the slogan "Ulster Says No" was used to express unionist opposition by what its critics alleged was a form of joint authority over Northern Ireland.
www.informationgenius.com /encyclopedia/i/ia/ian_paisley.html   (1486 words)

  
 THE GOLD RING CD & BOOK STORE - BOOKS, IRISH HISTORY
Ulster and North America : Transatlantic Perspectives on the Scotch-Irish.
Under Siege : Ulster Unionism and the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
Who Are `the People : Unionism, Protestantism and Loyalism in Northern Ireland.
www.goldring.org /GOLDWB14.HTM   (1943 words)

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