The Ulster Volunteer Force (more commonly referred to as the UVF or by some of its supporters The Peoples Army) is a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. The current incarnation was formed in May 1966 and named after the UVF of 1912. 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. Some contemporary estimates put its membership at over 100,000. Carson and Craig, supported by some English Conser ...

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Belfast is situated at 54°35′50″N, 05°56′20″W. A consequence of this latitude is that it both endures short winter days and enjoys long summer evenings. In the middle of the darkest period in December, local sunset is at 3.50 p.m. while sunrise is as late as 8.45 a.m. However, this is counterbalanced by the period from May to July. In mid-to-late June, sunset occurs after 10 p.m. and the daylight s ...

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Belfast, Belfast - Geography, Belfast - Points of interest, Belfast - History, Belfast - Local Politics, Belfast - Media, Belfast - Notable people, Belfast - 2001 Census, Belfast - Districts

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The Anglo-Irish Treaty, officially called the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland, was a treaty between the Government of the United Kingdom and representatives of the (extra-judicial) Irish Republic which concluded the Anglo-Irish War. It established an Irish dominion within the British Empire known as the Irish Free State and provided an option for the previously existing Northern Ireland, created by the 1920 Government of Ireland Act, to ...

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• Anglo-Irish Treaty - Content of the Treaty
• Anglo-Irish Treaty - Negotiators of the Treaty
• Anglo-Irish Treaty - Detail and background

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The History of Ireland is the story of a large island in the north-west of Europe and is heavily influenced by the concurrent History of Britain, its larger neighbour to the east. The first humans inhabited Ireland from around 7500 BC and were later responsible for major Neolithic sites such as Newgrange. Following the arrival of St. Patrick and other Christian missionaries in the mid-fifth century, a syncretized form of Christianity subsumed the indigenous pagan religion by A.D. 600. This led to a golden age of monastic Irish writing and ar ...

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• History of Ireland - Early history: 8000 BC–AD 400
• History of Ireland - Early Christian Ireland 400–800
• History of Ireland - Early medieval era 800–1166
• History of Ireland - Later Medieval Ireland
• History of Ireland - The Coming of the Normans 1167–1185
• History of Ireland - The Lordship of Ireland 1185–1254
• History of Ireland - Gaelic Resurgence Norman Decline 1254–1360
• History of Ireland - Reformation 1536–1654 and Protestant Ascendancy 1654–1801
• History of Ireland - Re-conquest and rebellion
• History of Ireland - Civil Wars and Penal Laws
• History of Ireland - Colonial Ireland
• History of Ireland - Union with Great Britain 1801-1922
• History of Ireland - Home Rule Easter 1916 and the War of Independence
• History of Ireland - Free State/Republic 1922-present
• History of Ireland - Northern Ireland
• History of Ireland - Footnotes

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The Right Honourable William David Trimble (born on October 15, 1944) is a Northern Ireland politician, who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and the first First Minister of Northern Ireland. He shared the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize with John Hume of the Social Democratic and Labour Party. He is married to his former student Daphne Orr and has four children. David Trimble - Education and Early Career. He was educated in Bangor, County Down, and at Queen's University, Belfast. He qualified as a ...

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• David Trimble - Education and Early Career
• David Trimble - Leadership of Ulster Unionist Party
• David Trimble - First Minister of The Agreement

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The British 36th (Ulster) Division was a New Army division formed in September 1914. Originally called the Ulster Division, it was made up of members of the Ulster Volunteer Force who formed 13 additional battalions for three existing Irish regiments; the Royal Irish Fusiliers, the Royal Irish Rifles and the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. The division served on the Western Front for the duration o ...

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• British 36th Ulster Division - Unit history
• British 36th Ulster Division - Formation
• British 36th Ulster Division - Battles

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In the context of Irish politics, Unionists are people in Northern Ireland, who wish to see the continuation of the Act of Union 1800, as amended by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, under which Northern Ireland, created in that latter Act, remains part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Unionists are mostly, but not exclusively, from Protestant backgrounds in terms of religion. In the context of Irish history, the term refers to those who opposed home rule for Irela ...

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• Unionists Ireland - Irish Home Rule
• Unionists Ireland - Partition

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Ulster (Irish: Cúige Uladh, IPA: /ˈkuːgʲ ˈulu/) is one of the four provinces of Ireland. Ulster - Geography and demographics. Ulster has a population of just under 2 million people and an area of 24,481 square kilometres (8,952 square miles). Its biggest city is Belfast (Béal Feirste). Six of Ulster's nine counties, Antrim (Aontroim), Armagh (Ard Mhacha), Down (An Dún), Fermanagh (Fear Manach), Lond ...

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• Ulster - Geography and demographics
• Ulster - History and politics
• Ulster - Early history
• Ulster - Plantations and civil wars
• Ulster - Republicanism rebellion and communal strife
• Ulster - Industrialisation home rule and partition
• Ulster - Current politics
• Ulster - Sport

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Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus "what shall we give in return for so much" Belfast (Béal Feirste in Irish) is a city in the United Kingdom. It is the largest city in Northern Ireland, of which it is the capital. In the 2001 Census the population within the city limits (Belfast Urban Area) was 276,459, while c.800,000 people live in the Greater Belfast area or Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area. The city is situated at the south-western end of Belfast Lough, a long natural inlet ideal for the shipping trade that made the ...

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• Belfast - Geography
• Belfast - Points of interest
• Belfast - History
• Belfast - Local Politics
• Belfast - Media
• Belfast - Notable people
• Belfast - 2001 Census
• Belfast - Districts

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On Sunday January 30, 1972, in an incident since known as Bloody Sunday, 14 unarmed men and boys were shot dead (one of whom died 4 months later) and 13 others were wounded by British paratroopers after a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in the Bogside area of the city of Derry, Northern Ireland. The march was organized by Derry Stormont MP Ivan Cooper to protest against internment without trial of Irishmen, predominantly Catholic, in Northern Ireland. While the start of the IRA's campaign against British ...

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• Bloody Sunday 1972 - Events of the Day
• Bloody Sunday 1972 - The dead
• Bloody Sunday 1972 - The perspectives and analyses on the day
• Bloody Sunday 1972 - The Saville Inquiry
• Bloody Sunday 1972 - Impact on Northern Ireland divisions
• Bloody Sunday 1972 - Artistic reaction

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A resident of the British controlled territory of Northern Ireland who supports continuing Northern Ireland's membership in the United Kingdom and opposes joining the Republic of Ireland. The Loyalist community is almost entirely Protestant and are mostly the descendants of loyalist English and Scottish protestant settlers sent to the Irish province of Ulster during the 17th and 18th centuries by England to create a loyalist protestant base in Ireland. Upon Irish independence in 1921, the six counties of Ulster with a slim Protestant majority opted to stay out of the independent Irish Free State, later the Republ ...

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• Ulster Loyalist - Loyalist political parties
• Ulster Loyalist - Armed Loyalist paramilitaries
• Ulster Loyalist - Loyalist fraternities

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The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is a loyalist paramilitary organisation in Northern Ireland, outlawed as a terrorist group in the UK and Republic of Ireland, which is perceived by its supporters as defending the unionist community from Irish Republican terrorism. Ulster Defence Association - Origin and Development. The UDA was formed in 1971 as an umbrella organisation for various loyalist groups. It originally had the motto 'law before violence' and was in fact a legal organisation until it was ...

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• Ulster Defence Association - Origin and Development
• Ulster Defence Association - The UDA and Politics
• Ulster Defence Association - Criminality and Terrorism
• Ulster Defence Association - Red Hand Defenders

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The Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) was an infantry regiment of the British Army. Formed in 1970, it was designed to replace the controversial B-Specials of Northern Ireland. Throughout its history the UDR was dogged by accusations of collusion with loyalist paramilitaries, many of whose members were also serving UDR soldiers, and had a reputation for brutality and maltreatment of civilians. Brigadier David Millar, the former commandant of the Fifth Battalion (County Londonderry), once admitted that if he expelled any of his soldiers for belonging to an illegal loy ...

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• Ulster Defence Regiment - Controversy
• Ulster Defence Regiment - Structure
• Ulster Defence Regiment - Battalions

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In general, a loyalist is an individual who is loyal to the powers that be. Two main historical groups of individuals have been specifically called "Loyalists" in English. For Loyalists in the American Revolutionary War, see the main article at Loyalist (American Revolution). The remainder of this article concerns Loyalists in the United Kingdom. Loyalist - Loyalists in Northern Ireland. See also: Ulster Loyalist A loyalist in Northern Ireland is another name for a Unionist who f ...

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• Loyalist - Loyalists in Northern Ireland
• Loyalist - Loyalists in Scotland
• Loyalist - Loyalists in England

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Irish nationalism - Roots. Ireland has been subject to varying degrees of rule from England since the late 12th century. (See Norman Ireland). The Gaelic Irish resisted this conquest through military and other means, but were organised in small independent lordships and did not have a common political goal such as an independent Irish state. Conflict over the English presence was exacerbated by the Protestant Reformation in England, which introduced a religious element to the Tudor re-conquest of Ireland. Another central feature of future Anglo-Irish conflict was the continuing dispossession of Irish Catho ...

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Irish nationalism, Irish nationalism - History, Irish nationalism - Roots, Irish nationalism - Early Nationalism - Grattan to O'Connell, Irish nationalism - Home Rule and Catholic Nationalism, Irish nationalism - Land League, Irish nationalism - Home Rule, Irish nationalism - Cultural Nationalism, Irish nationalism - Militant Separatism and Irish Independence, Irish nationalism - The Free State, Irish nationalism - Northern Ireland, Irish nationalism - Present, Irish nationalism - Ideology of Irish Nationalism, Irish nationalism - Irish nationalist organisations 1791-Present

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The outbreak of the First World War in August 1914 provoked a serious split in the organization. Redmond, in the interest of the Home Rule Act 1914 now on the statute books, encouraged the Volunteers to support Britain's War committment under the Triple Entente and join the proposed Irish Brigade of the new British Army divisions, an action vigorously opposed by the founding members. The majority however supported the War effort and the call to restore freedom to "small countries" in Europe and left to form the National Volunteers and fight ...

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Irish Volunteers, Irish Volunteers - Arming the Volunteers, Irish Volunteers - The Split, Irish Volunteers - The Easter Rising

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List of terrorist incidents - 1970. February 21: A bomb explodes in the rear of Swissair Flight 330, causing it to crash near Zürich, Switzerland, killing 38 passengers and all 9 crew members. May 8: Avivim school bus massacre by Palestinian PLO members, killing nine children, three adults and crippling 19. August 24: the Army Mathematics Research Center on the University of Wisconsin campus was blown up resulting in one death September 6: Coordinated hijacking of four airliners. ...

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List of terrorist incidents, List of terrorist incidents - Pre-11th century, List of terrorist incidents - 11th-18th century, List of terrorist incidents - 19th century, List of terrorist incidents - 1900s-1940s, List of terrorist incidents - 1950s, List of terrorist incidents - 1960s, List of terrorist incidents - 1970s, List of terrorist incidents - 1970, List of terrorist incidents - 1971, List of terrorist incidents - 1972, List of terrorist incidents - 1973, List of terrorist incidents - 1974, List of terrorist incidents - 1975, List of terrorist incidents - 1976, List of terrorist incidents - 1977, List of terrorist incidents - 1978, List of terrorist incidents - 1979, List of terrorist incidents - 1980s, List of terrorist incidents - 1980, List of terrorist incidents - 1981, List of terrorist incidents - 1982, List of terrorist incidents - 1983, List of terrorist incidents - 1984, List of terrorist incidents - 1985, List of terrorist incidents - 1986, List of terrorist incidents - 1987, List of terrorist incidents - 1988, List of terrorist incidents - 1989, List of terrorist incidents - 1990s, List of terrorist incidents - 1990, List of terrorist incidents - 1991, List of terrorist incidents - 1992, List of terrorist incidents - 1993, List of terrorist incidents - 1994, List of terrorist incidents - 1995, List of terrorist incidents - 1996, List of terrorist incidents - 1997, List of terrorist incidents - 1998, List of terrorist incidents - 1999, List of terrorist incidents - 2000s, List of terrorist incidents - 2000, List of terrorist incidents - 2001, List of terrorist incidents - 2002, List of terrorist incidents - 2003, List of terrorist incidents - 2004, List of terrorist incidents - 2005, List of terrorist incidents - 2006

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There is almost universal support in the Republic of Ireland for reunification from all political parties. Public opinion generally ranges from lukewarm to strongly nationalist. There are also some non-partisan groups, such as the Reform Movement and southern lodges of the Orange Order, that tend to be sympathetic to Northern Ireland remaining within the UK indefinitely. Opposition to reunification comes mainly from Unionist political parties in Northern Ireland, particularly the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and the Democratic Unionist ...

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Irish Reunification, Irish Reunification - Overview, Irish Reunification - Support and opposition for Reunification, Irish Reunification - Sinn Féin, Irish Reunification - Social Democratic and Labour Party, Irish Reunification - Irish Republican Socialist Party, Irish Reunification - Republican Sinn Féin, Irish Reunification - Fianna Fáil, Irish Reunification - Progressive Democrats, Irish Reunification - Fine Gael, Irish Reunification - Labour Party Ireland, Irish Reunification - Economic consequences of Reunification, Irish Reunification - Likelihood of a United Ireland

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List of terrorist organisations - Christian. Nagaland Rebels (1947-present) Active in predominately Christian state in Hindu majority India. Involved in several bombings in 2004. Goal: Independence from India after annexing parts of neighboring Indian states and Burma if it has Christian majority. National Liberation Front of Tripura (1989-present) A group that seeks the independence of Tripura from India to create a Christian Tripura. Ku Klux Klan A racist organisatio ...

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List of terrorist organisations, List of terrorist organisations - Religious Terrorists, List of terrorist organisations - Christian, List of terrorist organisations - Hindu, List of terrorist organisations - Jewish Israel, List of terrorist organisations - Muslim, List of terrorist organisations - Sikh Khalistan, List of terrorist organisations - Other religious terrorists, List of terrorist organisations - Nationalistic Terrorist Organizations, List of terrorist organisations - Palestinian, List of terrorist organisations - Lebanese, List of terrorist organisations - Pre-Independence Irish Nationalists, List of terrorist organisations - Irish Nationalists Northern Ireland, List of terrorist organisations - Sri Lanka, List of terrorist organisations - Northern Irish Loyalists Northern Ireland, List of terrorist organisations - Other nationalist terrorists, List of terrorist organisations - Left-wing terrorists, List of terrorist organisations - Right-wing terrorists, List of terrorist organisations - Racist terrorists mostly neo-Nazis and white-supremacists, List of terrorist organisations - Anti-Communists, List of terrorist organisations - Issue groups, List of terrorist organisations - Others

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Earlier names of Lurgan include "Lorgain Chlann Bhreasail" (Lurgan of Clanbrassil), "Lorgain Bhaile Mhic Cana" (Long low ridge of McCann's townland - Lurgan Bally McCann) and Lurgivallivacket (the long hill of the McCann's place). The McCann sept (clan) were Lords of Clanbrassil, prior to the Plantation of Ulster period in the early 17th century. The McCanns were septs of the O'Neills. In around 1610, during the Plantation period, the lands of Lurgan were given to the English lord William Brownlow and his family. In 1641 William Brown ...

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Lurgan, Lurgan - History, Lurgan - Sport, Lurgan - People, Lurgan - The Troubles

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