The Ulster Constitution Defence Committee (UCDC) was a body established in Northern Ireland by the Rev. Ian Paisley in April 1966 as the governing organ...
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between 1966 and 1969 and closely linked to the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee (UCDC) and Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). The UPV were led by Noel...
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The Troubles (redirect from Ulster Troubles)
fundamentalist preacher, founded the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee (UCDC). It set up a paramilitary-style wing called the Ulster Protestant Volunteers (UPV)...
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his own groups the Ulster Protestant Volunteers and the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee. In 1971, it merged with similar Ulster Loyalist groups elsewhere...
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April 1966, Ulster loyalists led by Ian Paisley, a Protestant fundamentalist preacher, founded the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee (UCDC). It set...
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Paisley's mobilisation of men and became involved in his Ulster Constitution Defence Committee. Despite their political collaboration, McGrath was not...
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Volunteers, the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee, the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Ulster Special Constabulary. They argued "Ulster" had strong party...
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The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. It was formed in September 1971 as an umbrella group...
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UCDC can refer to: Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University Ulster Constitution Defence Committee University Child Development Center University of California-District...
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Sunningdale Agreement Ulster Protestant Volunteers/Ulster Constitution Defence Committee – 1960s paramilitaries United Ulster Unionist Party – political...
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Independence has been supported by groups such as Ulster Third Way and some factions of the Ulster Defence Association. However, it is a fringe view in Northern...
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the Ulster Loyalist Democratic Party by the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), to replace the New Ulster Political Research Group. The UDP name had previously...
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Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church. Robinson also joined the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee. As a young man Robinson embraced a populist anti-Catholic fundamentalism;...
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Ian Paisley (category Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster ministers)
associate Noel Doherty founded the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee (UCDC) and its paramilitary wing, the Ulster Protestant Volunteers (UPV). At the...
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John McKeague (category Ulster loyalists interned without trial)
Northern Ireland riots, Paisley stated that he and other Ulster Constitution Defence Committee leaders had agreed to expel McKeague from the UPV in April...
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Noel Doherty (loyalist) (category Ulster Protestant Action members)
the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee (UCDC) as a governing body of twelve leading Ulster loyalists, which was to be connected to the Ulster Protestant...
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plan floundered when leaders of the local branch of the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee warned their members and supporters not to associate with...
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(including John McKeague) associated with the UVF, UPV, and Ulster Constitution Defence Committee (UCDC) charged with bomb attacks the previous year. 7 March:...
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David Burnside (category Ulster Defence Regiment soldiers)
He also served in the Ulster Defence Regiment. Since 2015 he has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Constitution Reform Group (CRG), a cross-party...
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Timeline of Real IRA and New IRA actions Timeline of Ulster Volunteer Force actions Timeline of Ulster Defence Association actions Timeline of Loyalist Volunteer...
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The Ulster Political Research Group is an advisory body connected to the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), providing advice to them on political matters...
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The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. The party was founded as the Ulster Unionist Council in 1905, emerging...
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Gusty Spence (category Royal Ulster Rifles soldiers)
was the subject of a release petition organised by the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee, although nothing came of either initiative. Despite the...
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groups the Ulster Defence Association, Down Orange Welfare and the Orange Volunteers and also organised its own vigilante group under the name Ulster Service...
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included Ulster loyalist paramilitaries such as the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). These groups helped to enforce...
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Partition of Ireland (redirect from Ulster Month)
partition was accompanied by violence "in defence or opposition to the new settlement" – see The Troubles in Ulster (1920–1922). In the first half of 1922...
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Tobermore (category Mid-Ulster District)
Constitution Defence Committee sashes. Ian Paisley and Free Presbyterian ministers featured prominently in the parade. In October 1972, an Ulster Vanguard...
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The Plantation of Ulster (Irish: Plandáil Uladh; Ulster Scots: Plantin o Ulstèr) was the organised colonisation (plantation) of Ulster – a province of Ireland –...
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Loyalist Association of Workers (category Ulster Defence Association)
1971 from an earlier, more minor group, the Workers' Committee for the Defence of the Constitution, and was initially led by Billy Hull, a heavyweight...
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Billy Hull (category Ulster Defence Association members)
and around 1970 he helped to establish the Workers' Committee for the Defence of the Constitution (WCDC), a loyalist trade union of which he was joint...
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