Ulster Protestant Action information

Ulster Protestant Action (UPA) was an Ulster loyalist political party and Protestant fundamentalist vigilante group in Northern Ireland that was founded...

The Ulster Protestant Volunteers was a loyalist and Reformed fundamentalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. They were active between 1966 and...

Ulster loyalism is a strand of Ulster unionism associated with working class Ulster Protestants in Northern Ireland. Like other unionists, loyalists support...

the Ulster Protestant Action (UPA) movement. It was founded and led by Ian Paisley, who also founded and led the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster. The...

area of Belfast, Spence was a leading figure with both Ulster Protestant Action and the Ulster Volunteer Force. Born in Belfast, Spence was the older...

Minister of Education. Porter attended the first meeting of the Ulster Protestant Action group in 1956, but he immediately withdrew. He lost his seat at...

Northern Ireland at a time of intercommunal strife, some of its (mostly Ulster Protestant) members were involved in sectarian killings. The regiment was originally...

Unionists and loyalists, who for historical reasons were mostly Ulster Protestants, wanted Northern Ireland to remain within the United Kingdom. Irish...

resident. He attended Grosvenor Grammar School in East Belfast, and then Ulster University where he obtained a degree in law and government, before attending...

Ulster Resistance (UR), or the Ulster Resistance Movement (URM), is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary movement established by the Democratic Unionist Party...

Catholic neighbourhoods from predominantly British loyalist or unionist Protestant neighbourhoods. They have been built at urban interface areas in Belfast...

was one of the founders of Ulster Protestant Action (UPA). Its initial purpose was to organise the defence of Protestant areas against anticipated Irish...

former political party formed by Ian Paisley in 1966 out of the Ulster Protestant Action (UPA) movement Independent Unionist Association (or Independent...

publisher Uganda People's Army, a rebel group active from 1987 to 1992 Ulster Protestant Action, Ireland União dos Povos de Angola (National Liberation Front of...

Liberation Army actions Timeline of Real Irish Republican Army actions Timeline of Continuity Irish Republican Army actions Timeline of Ulster Volunteer Force...

in the accident and emergency department in the Newtownards and then the Ulster Hospital as a clerical officer. As a Democratic Unionist Party politician...

physical force loyalism: his formation in 1956 of Ulster Protestant Action (UPA). Ulster Protestant Volunteers implicated Paisley, albeit via supposed...

groups Ulster Army Council (UAC) Ulster Loyalist Central Co-ordinating Committee (ULCCC) Combined Loyalist Military Command (CLMC) Protestant Action Force...

The Plantation of Ulster (Irish: Plandáil Uladh; Ulster Scots: Plantin o Ulstèr) was the organised colonisation (plantation) of Ulster – a province of Ireland –...

Republic of Ireland. The Army's locally-recruited Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) was almost wholly Protestant. Despite the vetting process, loyalist militants...

Parliament or the Northern Ireland Assembly are not listed. 1 Defected from the Ulster Unionist Party. 2 Defected from the Conservative Party, sitting as an Independent...

Northern Ireland. In April 1966, Ulster loyalists led by Ian Paisley, a Protestant fundamentalist preacher, founded the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee...

called a ceasefire on 31 August 1994. John Major's government, dependent on Ulster Unionist Party votes, then began insisting that the IRA must fully disarm...

Irish republican New Lodge area of the Antrim Road and the neighbouring Ulster loyalist Tiger's Bay area. Clashes here date back to at least the early...

Democratic Unionist Party evolved from the Protestant Unionist Party, which itself grew out of the Ulster Protestant Action movement. The DUP was founded on 30...

Defence Association and the Ulster Protestant Volunteers. Faulkner was urged by the British to include a few Protestants in the trawl but, apart from...