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Ken Gibson (loyalist)

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activities" in the aftermath of the attack. As the conflict escalated the UDA attempted to abduct Gibson outside an east Belfast bar on 6 May 1975. He broke free but broke his arm in the struggle before UVF members drinking at the bar came out to help him. In the resulting struggle one UDA member was shot and another stabbed, neither fatally. The UVF responded to the attack on Gibson by attempting to blow up Roberta House, the
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By the time the UVF was banned again, in October 1975, Gibson was no longer a member of its leadership but continued to give political advice to its Brigade Staff. However, he made a show of presenting himself at a local police station to announce his membership of the group. He was turned away, the
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in December 1972 and January 1973, which left a total of three men dead and 133 people injured. Tiernan also maintained that Gibson and his bombing unit were directed and controlled by officers from the British Intelligence community operating out of Army Headquarters in Lisburn. From January 1973 to
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between the UVF and the UDA broke out in east Belfast, where the UDA was much larger, as part of a wider deterioration in relations between the two paramilitary groups. As part of this strife Gibson had a grenade lobbed at his house by local UDA members. Gibson publicly accused the UDA of "gangster
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He publicly stated that the new party endorsed the idea of the establishment of an all-party talks forum, a policy that was seen as attractive to the British government. Gibson also added that if the UVF's efforts did not yield results then "there's going to be nothing left in Northern Ireland but
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at the time, arguing that Northern Ireland was too small to be economically viable as an independent state. Gibson, out of frustration with his party's inability to win support from ordinary, working-class people, hit the table one night shouting: "Scum, rats 'I've told the people out there, but
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religion before splitting with the church. He had been active as a member of the Sunday men's Bible study group at the Martyrs' Memorial Church, the Free Presbyterians' headquarters on the Ravenhill Road in south-east Belfast. From an early age he identified strongly with loyalism and Unionism.
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at his Martyrs' Memorial Church in a largely unsuccessful attempt to heal the rifts that had opened between the paramilitaries and the UUUC with the UVF feeling that they had been sidelined in the new coalition. Gibson had already criticised Paisley for his failure to take the Carson route of
33: 336:. Much of this stemmed from the "Ulster Citizens Army", a supposedly loyalist paramilitary group that wrote a series of letters to the press expressing left-wing views on paper headed with the left-wing republican 254:, resulting in the deaths of 33 people. Almost 300 were injured; many scarred and maimed for life. Nobody was ever charged in connection with the bombings which were carried out by units from the UVF's Belfast and 1796: 273:(UUUC) politicians who were instead using the UWC strike for their own ends. He also demanded more UVF participation in politics. Gibson also discussed his support of the return of IRA prisoners 384:
but even accused Gibson of orchestrating the assassination of former UVF Chief of Staff Jim Hanna, who was killed on 1 April 1974. Although Gibson received the support of West Belfast
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emblem. Rumours circulated that this group was in fact the UVF and that they had gone over to communism, although in fact the Ulster Citizens Army had never existed and was simply
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Fearon, Kate. The Conflict's Fifth Business: A brief biography of Billy Mitchell Northern Ireland: LINC Resource Centre (Local Initiatives for Needy Communities) (2002), p.52
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Following his release from prison in 1973, Gibson was chosen to serve as the public spokesman for the UVF. He was subsequently appointed as the Chairman of the short-lived
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The VPP was dissolved shortly afterwards as the UVF accepted there was little interest in their forming a political arm. As a result, Hugh Smyth was elected to the
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headquarters of the east Belfast UDA. The bomb, which journalists Jim Cusack and Henry McDonald stated was being transported by UVF member and future
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Frenett, Ross. "'Protestant Socialists'? Ulster Loyalism and Working-Class Politics: 1969–1974," Scrinium, University College Cork (2010), p.16, p.36
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Classified government documents discovered by the Pat Finucane Centre reveal that Gibson was one of a four-man UVF delegation that secretly met with
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Frenett, Ross. "'Protestant Socialists'? Ulster Loyalism and Working-Class Politics: 1969–1974," Scrinium, University College Cork (2010), p.36
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as a "senior west Belfast UVF figure at the time", who claimed that not only did Gibson attempt to force him out of his role as head of the
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Prison. This experience inside Long Kesh, including contact with Gusty Spence, left him a vehement opponent of internment and a critic of
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that was held immediately prior to the strike in an attempt to avoid the industrial action. The others in attendance were UDA commanders
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Frenett, Ross. "'Protestant Socialists'? Ulster Loyalism and Working-Class Politics:1969–1974," Scrinium, University College Cork (2010)
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In part due to their focus on social deprivation Gibson and the VPP were attacked by a number of unionist politicians, most notably Rev
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central committee the previous March. Indeed, Gibson had been one of only three paramilitaries to be invited to the secret meeting with
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press office in Lisburn, known colloquially as the "Lisburn Lie Machine". For their part the UVF issued a statement in their magazine
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By 1974 Gibson was the UVF's Chief of Staff or Brigadier-General as well as the official spokesman. With the Supreme Commander
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stating that they and the VPP were opposed to "all shades of communism, socialism and liberalism". Gibson also disavowed the
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for the Ulster Volunteer Force to go ahead and fight for Ulster". Gibson's campaign also focused on the poor standard of
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has stated that in 1974 Gibson was the "leader of the UVF". He was one of the organisation's strike leaders during the
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they're afraid. I've told them, you can run this country, you can have anything you want.'"
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a voice in running Northern Ireland. On 17 May 1974, the third day of the UWC strike, the
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December of that year Gibson, described as a "top intelligence officer" in the UVF, was
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police remaining indifferent. Several years later, he gave an interview to the
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publicly supporting the UVF. Both Gibson and Mitchell had been members of the
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in prison since 1966, Gibson became the organisation's "leading personality".
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The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal, 1966–1996, and the Search for Peace
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to Northern Ireland along with loyalist prisoners held in England.
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Author Sarah Nelson described him as a "skilled manual worker".
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was a Northern Irish politician who was the Chairman of the
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from the Shankill Road UVF, and senior West Belfast member
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Loyalists imprisoned during the Northern Ireland conflict
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The Union: Essays on Ireland and the British Connection
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in the city centre of Dublin and a fourth car bomb in
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Around this time Gibson and Billy Mitchell met with
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Index


Belfast
Volunteer Political Party
Ulster Volunteer Force
Volunteer Political Party
loyalist
Ulster Volunteer Force
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Free Presbyterian
The Troubles
Ulster Volunteer Force
Shankill Road
Jim Hanna
Billy Mitchell
Dublin
interned
Long Kesh
Ian Paisley
Democratic Unionist Party
Loyalist Association of Workers
Ulster Defence Association
Ulster Workers' Council
Gusty Spence
Tim Pat Coogan
Ulster Workers' Council Strike
UWC's
Stanley Orme
Andy Tyrie
Tommy Lyttle

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