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    The Shankill Road (from Irish Seanchill, meaning 'old church') is one of the main roads leading through West Belfast, in Northern Ireland. It runs through...
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  • The Shankill Road bombing was carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 23 October 1993 and is one of the most well-known incidents...
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  • The Shankill Butchers were an Ulster loyalist paramilitary gang – many of whom were members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) – that was active between...
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    of the ecclesiastical parish of the Shankill, which spanned a large portion of modern-day Belfast. The Falls Road itself was originally a country lane...
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    drug dealer and the former leader of the "C Company", 2nd Battalion Shankill Road, West Belfast Brigade of the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF). This was...
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  • Shankill, County Down, a parish situated partly in Counties Down and Armagh Shankill, County Fermanagh, a townland in County Fermanagh Shankill Road,...
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  • Lenny Murphy (category Shankill Butchers)
    half-way through a 12-year sentence for other offences. He returned to the Shankill Road, where he embarked on a murder spree. Details of his movements were...
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    The 1994 Shankill Road killings took place on 16 June 1994 when the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) shot dead three Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)...
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  • bombing was a paramilitary attack that took place on 11 December 1971 on Shankill Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, resulting in four deaths. On the 11 December...
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  • withdrawn from the Shankill. At the end of 1972, Wilford, who was directly in charge of the soldiers involved in Bloody Sunday and Shankill, was appointed...
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    parts of the road are several interface area with the neighbouring Ulster loyalist areas of the Greater Shankill. The Springfield Road includes the Ballymurphy...
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    his operations took place from the Shankill Road in Belfast, McKeag was actually a native of the lower Oldpark Road in the north of the city. As a youth...
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    headquarters of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) in the Protestant Shankill area of Belfast. Two Protestant civilians were shot dead and others wounded...
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  • Road, was destroyed. The nationalist crowd also burnt a Catholic-owned pub and betting shop. At this stage, loyalist crowds gathered on Shankill Road...
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    civilians in a gun and bomb attack at the Mountainview Tavern on the Shankill Road, Belfast. The attack was claimed by the Republican Action Force believed...
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  • ran a criminal large-scale protection racket from the West Belfast Shankill Road area, where he resided. Described by journalist David McKittrick as...
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    mid-1977, a unit of the UVF dubbed the Shankill Butchers (a group of UVF men based on Belfast's Shankill Road) carried out a series of sectarian murders...
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    or named after Protestant areas such as the Shankill Road in Belfast, although the number of "Shankill Road" bands suggest that many of their members must...
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  • who was a member of the active service unit which carried out the Shankill Road bombing in 1993. Kelly was convicted of nine counts of murder, but was...
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  • parade up the Shankill Road. But vicious fighting ensued, with a roughly three hundred-strong C Company (the name given to the Lower Shankill unit of the...
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    source of pride for the UDA. The first women's unit was founded on the Shankill Road by Wendy "Bucket" Millar, whose sons Herbie and James "Sham" Millar...
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  • delivering the loyalist ceasefires of 1994. Spence was born in the Shankill Road, Belfast, area, Northern Ireland, the son of William Edward Spence,...
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    successor to a much older parish church on the present Shankill (Seanchill, "Old Church") Road,: 63–64  dating back to the 9th, and possibly to St. Patrick...
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    carried out by the INLA include the Droppin Well bombing, the 1994 Shankill Road killings and the assassinations of Airey Neave in 1979 and Billy Wright...
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    name "Ulster Freedom Fighters", saying the attack was revenge for the Shankill Road bombing by the Provisional IRA a week earlier. Four men were sentenced...
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  • Robert Bates (loyalist) (category Shankill Butchers)
    the infamous Shankill Butchers gang, led by Lenny Murphy. Bates was born into an Ulster Protestant family and grew up in the Shankill Road area of Belfast...
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    Protestant civilian on the Shankill Road, Belfast. 18 December – An IPLO bomb exploded as a man opened the bonnet of his car in the Low Road area of Lisburn, throwing...
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    bombing which killed eleven people including ten civilians, and the Shankill Road bombing which killed ten people including eight civilians. The IRA was...
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  • Greater Shankill area. Initially a battalion, the West Belfast Brigade emerged from the local "defence associations" active in the Shankill at the beginning...
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    the attack, the UVF's Brigade Staff (Belfast leadership based on the Shankill Road) issued a statement. It was released under the heading Ulster Central...
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