See also: Ulster Loyalist A loyalist in Northern Ireland is another name for a Unionist who feels strongly about the political union between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. In recent times, however, some sections of the media have devalued the term to refer to someone on the extreme fringe of unionism who resorts to murder, or threatens to do so, in what they perceive as their defence of their community, Protestantism, or Northern Ireland's position as part of the United Kingdom. Loyalists in Northern Ireland ...

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Ian Paisley was born in what was then the town of Armagh, County Armagh in Northern Ireland, and brought up in the town of Ballymena, County Antrim where his father James Kyle Paisley was an independent Baptist pastor. His Scottish mother Isabella Paisley was instrumental in his evangelical conversion at the age of six. After completing his education at the Model School in Ballymena, he went to work on a farm in Sixmilecross, County Tyrone. During his time there he felt constrained to enter the Christian ministry. He undertook theological tr ...

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Ian Paisley, Ian Paisley - Background, Ian Paisley - 'No Surrender', Ian Paisley - Political Life, Ian Paisley - Ian Paisley says 'Ulster says no', Ian Paisley - The Good Friday Agreement, Ian Paisley - A Complex Man, Ian Paisley - Defender or Demagogue?, Ian Paisley - Anti-Gay Campaigining, Ian Paisley - Nearing Retirement, Ian Paisley - Family confirms seriousness of 2004 illness, Ian Paisley - Family, Ian Paisley - Famous Quotes, Ian Paisley - Theology

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In August 1917 the 8th and 9th battalions of the Royal Irish Rifles amalgamated to form the 8/9th Battalion which disbanded in February 1918. Between November 1915 and February 1916 the brigade swapped with the 12th Brigade from the 4th Division. 108th Brigade  9th (Service) Battalion, the Royal Irish Fusiliers 12th (Service) Battalion (Central Antrim), the Royal Irish Rifles 2nd Battalion, the Royal Irish Rifles (from November 1917 to 107th Bde. February 1918) ...

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

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Northern Ireland was covered by an ice sheet for most of the last ice age and on numerous previous occasions, the legacy of which can be seen in the extensive coverage of drumlins in Counties Fermanagh, Armagh, Antrim and particularly Down. The centrepiece of Northern Ireland's geography is Lough Neagh, at 151 mi² (392 km²) the largest freshwater lake in the British Isles. A second extensive lake system is centred on Lower and Upper Lough Erne in Fermanagh. There are substantial uplands in the Sperrin Mountains (an extension of the ...

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Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland - Demographics and politics, Northern Ireland - Northern Ireland nationality law, Northern Ireland - Symbols, Northern Ireland - Geography and climate, Northern Ireland - The Counties in Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland - Towns and villages, Northern Ireland - Places of interest, Northern Ireland - Variations in Geographic nomenclature, Northern Ireland - Economy, Northern Ireland - History, Northern Ireland - Partition of Ireland partition of Ulster, Northern Ireland - 1925 to the present, Northern Ireland - Culture, Northern Ireland - Languages

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The Sinn Féin victory in the general election of 1918 and their creation of an independent parliament (Dáil Éireann) marked the beginning of guerilla war. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) under Michael Collins carried out systematic attacks on Crown forces, and the RIC took the heaviest of the assaults. From the autumn of 1919, they were forced to abandon their more isolated barracks. Simultaneously a boycott of the police w ...

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Royal Irish Constabulary, Royal Irish Constabulary - History of policing in Ireland, Royal Irish Constabulary - The Anglo-Irish War, Royal Irish Constabulary - External link

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Main Article: History of Belfast The site of Belfast has been occupied since the Bronze ages, and the remains of Iron Age hill forts can still be seen. It became a substantial settlement in the 17th century and blossomed as a commerical and industrial centre in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Belfast has long been the capital of Ulster province and of Northern Ireland since its creation in 1920. Since the 17th century, it has sadly been the scene of much sectarian conflict between Catholics (now often ca ...

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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 largest of the modern-day Sinn Féin parties, also referred to as Provisional Sinn Féin, is the only political party to have seats in the parliaments of both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Sinn Féin is the largest group in the Republican wing of Irish nationalism and is closely associated with the demobilized Provisional IRA. The question of whether Sinn Fein is in fact the political wing of the provisional IRA remains disputed. Both organisations advocate a United Ireland and avowedly socialist values with a nationalist ...

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Sinn Féin, Sinn Féin - Modern Sinn Féin, Sinn Féin - Leaders and splits, Sinn Féin - History, Sinn Féin - Early days, Sinn Féin - The Easter Rising, Sinn Féin - First Elections, Sinn Féin - The Split over The Treaty, Sinn Féin - 1970 split into the Provisional and Official wings, Sinn Féin - Sinn Féin recent history, Sinn Féin - Sinn Féin organisational structure, Sinn Féin - The Peace Process, Sinn Féin - Belfast Agreement, Sinn Féin - Increase in support, Sinn Féin - Latest developments, Sinn Féin - Parties with origins in 1916-21 Sinn Féin

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With the Officials' repudiation of violence in 1972, and its move from republicanism to Marxism, Provisional Sinn Féin became the political voice of the minority of northern nationalists who saw IRA violence as the means of forcing an end to British rule and institutionalised discrimination against nationalists which, in the words of Ulster Unionist leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate David Trimble, had created "a cold house for Catholics". The British government agreed to legalise Sinn Féin in May 1974. It legalised the paramilitary Uls ...

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Sinn Féin, Sinn Féin - Modern Sinn Féin, Sinn Féin - Leaders and splits, Sinn Féin - History, Sinn Féin - Early days, Sinn Féin - The Easter Rising, Sinn Féin - First Elections, Sinn Féin - The Split over The Treaty, Sinn Féin - 1970 split into the Provisional and Official wings, Sinn Féin - Sinn Féin recent history, Sinn Féin - Sinn Féin organisational structure, Sinn Féin - The Peace Process, Sinn Féin - Belfast Agreement, Sinn Féin - Increase in support, Sinn Féin - Latest developments, Sinn Féin - Parties with origins in 1916-21 Sinn Féin

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List of terrorist organisations - Palestinian. Main article: Palestinian political violence Palestinian Islamic Jihad Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (see Fatah) Baloch Mujahideen List of terrorist organisations - Pre-Independence Irish Nationalists. Fenian Brotherhood (19th century, disbanded) List of terrorist organisations - Irish Nationalists Northern Ireland. Irish ...

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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, 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 - 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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The Troubles - The partition of Ireland. The origins of the Troubles are complex. What is clear is that its origins lie in the centuries-long debate over whether Ireland, or part of Ireland, should be part of the United Kingdom, and the anger felt by some Irish at their treatment by the British. In 1922, after widespread political violence, the Government of Ireland Act partitioned the island of Ireland into two separate regions, one of which became "Northern Ireland". According to the majority of unionists, Nort ...

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The Troubles, The Troubles - Casualties : Brief Summary, The Troubles - Background, The Troubles - Overview, The Troubles - The partition of Ireland, The Troubles - Religion and class, The Troubles - Policing, The Troubles - Timeline, The Troubles - Bloody Sunday, The Troubles - Bloody Friday, The Troubles - The Special Powers Act, The Troubles - Situation in 2004, The Troubles - Directory, The Troubles - 1. Cultural / Religious Groupings, The Troubles - 2. Political Parties, The Troubles - 3. Security Forces, The Troubles - 4. Paramilitary Groups

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The Troubles were another chapter in the long-running series of disputes between Ulster's Protestant and Roman Catholic communities. They were brought to an uneasy end by a peace process which included the declaration of ceasefires by most paramilitary organisations, the withdrawal of most troops from the streets and the creation of a new police force in a series of reforms, as agreed by the signatories to the Belfast Agreement (commonly ...

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The Troubles, The Troubles - Casualties : Brief Summary, The Troubles - Background, The Troubles - Overview, The Troubles - The partition of Ireland, The Troubles - Religion and class, The Troubles - Policing, The Troubles - Timeline, The Troubles - Bloody Sunday, The Troubles - Bloody Friday, The Troubles - The Special Powers Act, The Troubles - Situation in 2004, The Troubles - Directory, The Troubles - 1. Cultural / Religious Groupings, The Troubles - 2. Political Parties, The Troubles - 3. Security Forces, The Troubles - 4. Paramilitary Groups

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The Troubles - The partition of Ireland. The origins of the Troubles are complex. What is clear is that its origins lie in the centuries-long debate over whether Ireland, or part of Ireland, should be part of the United Kingdom, and the anger felt by many Irish at their treatment by the British. In 1922, after widespread political violence, the Government of Ireland Act partitioned the island of Ireland into two separate regions, one of which became "Northern Ireland". According to the majority of unionists, Nort ...

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The Troubles, The Troubles - Casualties : Brief Summary, The Troubles - Background, The Troubles - Overview, The Troubles - The partition of Ireland, The Troubles - Religion and class, The Troubles - Policing, The Troubles - Timeline, The Troubles - Bloody Sunday, The Troubles - Bloody Friday, The Troubles - The Special Powers Act, The Troubles - Situation in 2004, The Troubles - Directory, The Troubles - 1. Cultural / Religious Groupings, The Troubles - 2. Political Parties, The Troubles - 3. Security Forces, The Troubles - 4. Paramilitary Groups

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Deaths related to conflict (1990-2004) Number of deaths listed as "conflict-related (uncertain if conflict-related)" ( [1]). The Troubles - Bloody Sunday. Main article: Bloody Sunday (1972) Bloody Sunday in January 1972 was one of the key events during the Troubles. The Troubles - Bloody Friday. Bloody Friday July 21, 1972. 22 bombs are planted by the IRA in and around Belfast, resulting in multiple deaths of civilians and soldiers as well as numerious injuries. The ...

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The Troubles, The Troubles - Casualties : Brief Summary, The Troubles - Background, The Troubles - Overview, The Troubles - The partition of Ireland, The Troubles - Religion and class, The Troubles - Policing, The Troubles - Timeline, The Troubles - Bloody Sunday, The Troubles - Bloody Friday, The Troubles - The Special Powers Act, The Troubles - Situation in 2004, The Troubles - Directory, The Troubles - 1. Cultural / Religious Groupings, The Troubles - 2. Political Parties, The Troubles - 3. Security Forces, The Troubles - 4. Paramilitary Groups

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Thirteen people were shot dead, with another man later dying of his wounds. The official army position, backed by the British Home Secretary the next day in the House of Commons, was that the Paratroopers had reacted to the threat of gunmen and nail-bombs from suspected IRA members. However, all eye-witnesses (apart from the soldiers), including marchers, local residents, and British and Irish journalists present, maintain that soldiers fired indiscriminately into the crowd, or were aiming at fleeing people and those tending the wounded, and ...

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Bloody Sunday 1972, 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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In 1997, unionists lost control of Belfast City Council for the first time in its history, with the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland gaining the balance of power between nationalists and unionists. This position was confirmed in the council elections of 2001 and 2005. Since then it has had two Catholic mayors, one from the SDLP and one from Sinn Féin. In the 2005 local government elections, the voters of Belfast elected 51 councillors to Belfast City Council from the following political parties: 15 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), ...

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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 Troubles were another chapter in the long-running series of disputes between Northern Ireland's Unionist community, which is primarily Protestant, and Nationalist community, which is chiefly Roman Catholic. They were brought to an uneasy end by a peace process which included the declaration of ceasefires by most paramilitary organisations, the withdrawal of most troops from the streets and the creation of a new police force in a series of reforms, as agreed by the signatories to the Belfast Agreement (commonly ...

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The Troubles, The Troubles - Casualties : Brief Summary, The Troubles - Background, The Troubles - Overview, The Troubles - The partition of Ireland, The Troubles - Religion and class, The Troubles - Policing, The Troubles - Timeline, The Troubles - Bloody Sunday, The Troubles - Bloody Friday, The Troubles - The Special Powers Act, The Troubles - Situation in 2004, The Troubles - Directory, The Troubles - 1. Cultural / Religious Groupings, The Troubles - 2. Political Parties, The Troubles - 3. Security Forces, The Troubles - 4. Paramilitary Groups

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Under section 54 training can be an offense: 54. - (1) A person commits an offence if he provides instruction or training in the making or use of: (a) firearms, (b) explosives, or (c) chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. Under this giving training in the construction of explosives is an offence thus making showing the chemical data avaible on this page illegal. ...

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Terrorism Act 2000, Terrorism Act 2000 - Definition of terrorism, Terrorism Act 2000 - Training, Terrorism Act 2000 - List of proscribed groups, Terrorism Act 2000 - International groups, Terrorism Act 2000 - Domestic groups, Terrorism Act 2000 - Controversial police usage of the Act

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Terrorism is defined, in the first section of the Act, as follows: section 1. - (1) In this Act "terrorism" means the use or threat of action where- (a) the action falls within subsection (2), (b) the use or threat is designed to influence the government or to intimidate the public or a section of the public, and (c) the use or threat is made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause. (2) Action falls w ...

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Terrorism Act 2000, Terrorism Act 2000 - Definition of terrorism, Terrorism Act 2000 - Training, Terrorism Act 2000 - List of proscribed groups, Terrorism Act 2000 - International groups, Terrorism Act 2000 - Domestic groups, Terrorism Act 2000 - Controversial police usage of the Act

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Deaths related to conflict (1990-2004) Number of deaths listed as "conflict-related (uncertain if conflict-related)" ( [1]). The Troubles - Bloody Sunday. Main article: Bloody Sunday (1972) Bloody Sunday in January 1972 was one of the key events during the Troubles. The Troubles - Bloody Friday. Bloody Friday, July 21, 1972. 22 bombs are planted by the IRA in and around Belfast, resulting in multiple deaths of civilians and soldiers as well as numerious injuries. The ...

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The Troubles, The Troubles - Casualties : Brief Summary, The Troubles - Background, The Troubles - Overview, The Troubles - The partition of Ireland, The Troubles - Religion and class, The Troubles - Policing, The Troubles - Timeline, The Troubles - Bloody Sunday, The Troubles - Bloody Friday, The Troubles - The Special Powers Act, The Troubles - Situation in 2004, The Troubles - Directory, The Troubles - 1. Cultural / Religious Groupings, The Troubles - 2. Political Parties, The Troubles - 3. Security Forces, The Troubles - 4. Paramilitary Groups

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List of terrorist organisations - Palestinian. Main articles: Palestinian political violence, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]]See also:

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, 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 - 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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Main article: History of Northern Ireland; for events before 1900 see Ulster or History of Ireland. The area now known as Northern Ireland has had a diverse history. From serving as the bedrock of Irish resistance in the era of the plantations of Queen Elizabeth and James I in other parts of Ireland, it became itself the subject of major planting of Scottish and English settlers after the Flight of the Earls in 1607 (when the native Gaelic aristo ...

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Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland - Demographics and politics, Northern Ireland - Symbols, Northern Ireland - Geography and climate, Northern Ireland - The Counties in Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland - Towns and villages, Northern Ireland - Places of interest, Northern Ireland - Variations in Geographic nomenclature, Northern Ireland - Economy, Northern Ireland - History, Northern Ireland - Partition of Ireland partition of Ulster, Northern Ireland - 1925 to the present, Northern Ireland - Culture, Northern Ireland - Languages

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