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Ulster Volunteers

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42: 735:(USC) formed, intended to serve as an armed reserve force to bolster the RIC and fight the IRA. Spender encouraged UVF members to join it and many did , although the USC did not engulf the bulk of the UVF (and other loyalist paramilitary groups) until early 1922. Craig hoped to "neutralise" the loyalist paramilitaries by enrolling them in the C Division of the USC, a move that was backed by the British government. Historian Michael Hopkinson wrote that the USC, "amounted to an officially approved UVF". Unlike the RIC, the USC was almost wholly Protestant and was greatly mistrusted by Catholics and nationalists. Following IRA attacks, the USC often carried out revenge killings and 1444: 175: 519: 686:
During the conflict, loyalists set up small independent "vigilance groups" in many parts of Ulster. Most of these groups would patrol their areas and report anything untoward to the RIC. Some of them were armed with UVF rifles from 1914. There were also a number of small loyalist paramilitary groups,
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Existing conditions call for the demobilisation of the Ulster Volunteers. The Force was organised, to protect the interests of the Province of Ulster, at a time when trouble threatened. The success of the organisation speaks for itself, as a page of history, in the records of Ulster that will never
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Although many UVF officers left to join the British Army during the war, the unionist leadership wanted to preserve the UVF as a viable force, aware that the issue of Home Rule and partition would be revisited when the war ended. There were also fears of a German naval raid on Ulster and so much of
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Also occasionally targeted were Ulster Protestants who saw the republican guerrilla campaign as an invasion of their territory, where they formed the majority. Loyalist activists responded by forming vigilante groups, which soon acquired official status as part of the Ulster Special Constabulary.
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as the UVF's Officer Commanding. At the same time, announcements were printed in unionist newspapers calling on all former UVF members to report for duty. However, this call met with limited success; for example, each Belfast battalion drew little more than 100 men each and they were left mostly
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It is questionable the extent to which the UVF did actually reform in 1920. Possibly the UVF proper amounted to little more than 3,000 men in this period and it is noticeable that the UVF never had a formal disbandment ... possibly so that attention would not be drawn to the extent to which the
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The Ulster Volunteers were a continuation of what has been described as the "Protestant volunteering tradition, in Ireland", which since 1666 spans the various Irish Protestant militias founded to defend Ireland from foreign threat. References to the most prominent of these militias, the
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The Ulster Unionists enjoyed the wholehearted support of the British Conservative Party, even when threatening rebellion against the British government. On 23 September 1913, the 500 delegates of the Ulster Unionist Council met to discuss the practicalities of setting up a
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officially revived the UVF on 25 June 1920. Many Unionists felt that the RIC, being mostly Roman Catholic (though this was not the case with regards to Ulster) as a whole, would not adequately protect Protestant areas. In early July, the UUC appointed
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These men spearheaded the wave of anti-Catholic violence that began in July 1920 and continued for two years. This onslaught was part of an Ulster Unionist counter-revolution, whose gunmen operated almost exclusively as ethnic cleansers and avengers.
301:(IRA) was launching attacks on British forces in Ireland. In response, the UVF was revived. It was involved in some sectarian clashes and minor actions against the IRA. However, this revival was largely unsuccessful and the UVF was absorbed into the 712:. UVF members fired from the Fountain neighbourhood into adjoining Catholic districts, and the IRA returned fire. Thirteen Catholics and five Protestants were killed in a week of violence. In August 1920, the UVF helped organise the 364:, the House of Lords had seen their powers to block legislation diminished and so it could be expected that this Bill would (eventually) become law. Home Rule was popular in all of Ireland apart from the northeast of Ulster. While 1592: 627:
party who sought full independence for Ireland—won an overwhelming majority of the seats in Ireland. Its members refused to take their seats in the British Parliament and instead set up
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was formed in 1966. It claims to be a direct descendant of the older organisation and uses the same logo, but there are no organisational links between the two.
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was ordered to move troops into Ulster to protect arms depots from the UVF. However, 57 of the 70 officers at the Army's headquarters in Ireland
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began, fought between the IRA and the forces of the Crown in Ireland (consisting of various forces including the British Army,
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The UVF was involved in sectarian clashes in Derry in June 1920. Catholic homes were burned in the mainly-Protestant
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World War I ended in November 1918. On 1 May 1919, the UVF was 'demobilised' when Richardson stood down as its
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rather than enforce Home Rule or take on the UVF. The following month, the UVF smuggled 20,000
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The sluggish recruitment to the UVF and its failure to stop IRA activities in Ulster prompted
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unarmed. The UVF's revival also met with little backing from unionists in Great Britain.
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Fisk says 35,000 enlisted. 5,000 being killed during the attack on German lines at
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Coming into the Light: The Work, Politics and Religion of Women in Ulster 1840-1940
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was the first commander of the 3rd East Belfast Regiment of the Ulster Volunteers.
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In January 1913, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) was formally established by the
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The Outrages: The IRA and the Ulster Special Constabulary in the Border Campaign
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The third Home Rule Bill was eventually passed despite the objections of the
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Details on UVF links to the 36th Ulster Division which fought at the
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On 25 November 1913, partly in response to the formation of the UVF,
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area, and UVF members fired on Catholics fleeing by boat across the
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in it. Many UVF men enlisted in the British Army, mostly with the
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The two key figures in the creation of the Ulster Volunteers were
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from the 36th (Ulster) Division, with the UVF logo in the middle
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and losing their local supremacy and strong links with Britain.
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formation of 1920–22 was such a pale shadow of that of 1913–14.
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rifles with 3,000,000 rounds of ammunition into the port of
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and Irish unionists feared being governed by a nationalist
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199th (Duchess of Connaught's Own Irish Rangers) Battalion
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Manchester University Press. pp. 16, 68. 670:As a response to IRA attacks within Ulster, the 655:provided for two Home Rule parliaments: one for 234:. In 1913, the militias were organised into the 1017: 1015: 667:chose to remain a part of the United Kingdom. 586:and were largely wiped out in 1918 during the 1394: 468:for Ulster, should Home Rule be implemented. 8: 1234: 1232: 1161: 1159: 1145: 1143: 1141: 1139: 1137: 714:mass burning of Catholic property in Lisburn 594:the UVF was recast as a home defence force. 360:" of 1909 and the subsequent passing of the 124:Exact size unknown, at least 100,000 in 1912 1465: 1401: 1387: 1379: 31: 1883:1912 establishments in the United Kingdom 429:) began forming small local militias and 417:, Director of Military Operations at the 859:Holmes, Janice; Urquhart, Diane (1994). 173: 1200:Eunan O'Halpin & Daithí Ó Corráin. 820:. Blackstaff Press. pp. 402, 405. 787: 1174:Peter Hart in, Joost Augusteijn (ed), 889:"HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN (from 1707)" 368:were the majority in most of Ireland, 7: 954:. Taylor & Francis. p. 72. 867:. Queen's University Belfast, 1994. 695:wrote the following of these groups: 266:. Much of the UVF enlisted with the 1787:Irish National War Memorial Gardens 1313:. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 998:White, Gerry and O’Shea, Brendan: 919:"Ireland - The 20th-century crisis" 727:to call for the formation of a new 340:, held the balance of power in the 899:from the original on 11 April 2007 802:. Privately published. p. 42. 687:the most notable of which was the 482:In March 1914, the British Army's 46:Ulster Volunteers in Belfast, 1914 25: 1857:Irish in the British Armed Forces 958:from the original on 21 June 2013 633:declared independence for Ireland 439:Conservative & Unionist Party 285:into two self-governing regions: 73:(various units active since 1912) 1598:208th (Canadian Irish) Battalion 1442: 1202:The Dead of the Irish Revolution 1191:. Mercier Press, 2011. pp. 16–17 1000:Irish Volunteer Soldiers 1913-23 344:. In April 1912, Prime Minister 342:Parliament of the United Kingdom 40: 1807:Irish Victoria Cross recipients 1603:121st (Western Irish) Battalion 1290:Proclamation by the UVF in the 929:from the original on 3 May 2020 762:Young Citizen Volunteers (1912) 530:showing four recipients of the 332:party which sought devolution ( 1572:103rd (Tyneside Irish) Brigade 1557:8th King's Royal Irish Hussars 1542:4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards 1108:. Faber & Faber. pp.  1066:. Penguin Books. p. 478. 665:Parliament of Northern Ireland 653:Government of Ireland Act 1920 617:December 1918 general election 178:Ulster Volunteer Force in 1914 1: 546:had been abolished under the 484:Commander-in-Chief in Ireland 206:, which was then part of the 71:13 January 1913 – 1 May 1919 18:Ulster Volunteer Force (1912) 1824:It's a Long Way to Tipperary 1792:Island of Ireland Peace Park 1619:South African Irish Regiment 1496:Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 1367:(Gill & Macmillan) 1983 739:against Catholic civilians. 246:formed a rival militia, the 230:and losing their links with 1771:Conscription Crisis of 1918 1552:6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons 1343:. Constable, London 1974. 1022:Timothy Bowman (May 2012). 948:Martin, Francis X. (1967). 733:Ulster Special Constabulary 498:. This became known as the 384:feared being governed by a 303:Ulster Special Constabulary 165:Ulster Special Constabulary 27:Unionist militia in Ireland 1899: 1051:. 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Index

Ulster Volunteer Force (1912)

Edward Carson
James Craig
Belfast
Ulster
Ideology
Ulster loyalism
British unionism
Opposition to Home Rule
Ulster Unionist Council
Irish nationalists
Irish republicans
Ulster Special Constabulary

unionist
loyalist
domestic self-government
Home Rule
Ireland
United Kingdom
province
Ulster
Ulster Protestants
Catholic
Dublin
Great Britain
Irish nationalists
Irish Volunteers
smuggled 25,000 rifles

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