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Ulster Resistance (UR), or the Ulster Resistance Movement (URM),[1][2][3] is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary movement established by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in Northern Ireland in November 1986 in opposition to the Anglo-Irish Agreement.[4]
^"Local Elections Take Pulse of Northern Ireland" Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Associated Press. 15 May 1989.
^"House of Commons Hansard Debates for 5 Dec 1988". Archived from the original on 18 February 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
^Weitzer, Ronald John. Transforming Settler States. University of California Press, 1990. p.256
^"CAIN: Abstracts of Organisations – 'U'". Archived from the original on 22 February 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
UlsterResistance (UR), or the UlsterResistance Movement (URM), is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary movement established by the Democratic Unionist Party...
Ulster loyalism is a strand of Ulster unionism associated with working class Ulster Protestants in Northern Ireland. Like other unionists, loyalists support...
1980s, loyalist paramilitary groups—the Ulster Volunteer Force, the Ulster Defence Association, and UlsterResistance—imported arms and explosives from South...
the UPV later joined UlsterResistance, another paramilitary grouping linked to Ian Paisley. UlsterUlster Protestant Action Ulster Protestant League (1931)...
ensure that the word "Ulster" be removed from the name of the regiment. They argued that the name "Ulster" evoked emotive resistance from many Catholics...
donned a red UlsterResistance beret on stage, daring the RUC to arrest him while Allister pledged his "personal support" to UlsterResistance. Allister...
and UlsterResistance, the latter of which helped smuggle a large shipment of weapons into Northern Ireland. For most of the DUP's history, the Ulster Unionist...
The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group based in Northern Ireland. Formed in 1965, it first emerged in 1966. Its first...
The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. It was formed in September 1971 as an umbrella group...
concentrated in Belfast and its hinterlands as Ulster unionism and prepared an armed resistance—the Ulster Volunteers. Within the partition settlement of...
in Northern Ireland Ulster Defence Association (UDA): Ulster loyalist group. UlsterResistance mainly in Northern Ireland Ulster Volunteer Force mainly...
McAuley asserted that the Ulster Defence Association had been supplied weapons, in the late 1980s, by the UlsterResistance and that Frazer was the point...
and Sir Edward Carson called for opposition to Home Rule 1986 – the UlsterResistance was launched at the hall, to oppose the Anglo-Irish Agreement 1995...
Socialist Movement Provisional Republican Movement Umbrella groups Ulster Army Council (UAC) Ulster Loyalist Central Co-ordinating Committee (ULCCC) Combined Loyalist...
The Ulster Scots (Ulster-Scots: Ulstèr-Scotch; Irish: Albanaigh Uladh), also called Ulster Scots people (Ulstèr-Scotch fowk) or, in North America, Scotch-Irish...
paramilitary links’. Shannon was a founder member of UlsterResistance and also a member of the Ulster Clubs. A colleague stationed at the Newtownards base...
1986, Alan Wright spoke at the Ulster Hall rally that launched UlsterResistance, although there were many within the Ulster Clubs who advised him against...
along with Foster and Peter Robinson, co-founded the organisation UlsterResistance in 1986 with the aim of importing arms to support loyalist paramilitarism...
success. His attempts to create a paramilitary movement culminated in UlsterResistance. Paisley and his party also opposed the Northern Ireland peace process...
little or no knowledge of Belfast, underestimating Unionist resistance as a bluff, insisting "Ulster will have to follow". William O'Brien who in 1893 worked...
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...
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