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90 relations: Andy Tyrie, Anglo-Irish Agreement, Apprentice Boys of Derry, Armalite and ballot box strategy, Belfast South (UK Parliament constituency), Belfast South by-election, 1982, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Brian Nelson (Northern Irish loyalist), Car bomb, Church of Ireland, Coalisland, County Antrim, County Tyrone, Danny Morrison (Irish republican), David Trimble, Dromore, County Down, Force Research Unit, Gary McMichael, Gibraltar, Henry McDonald (writer), HighBeam Research, HM Prison Maze, Ian Adamson, Ian Paisley, Incendiary device, Irish Independence Party, Irish National Liberation Army, Irish Republican Socialist Party, Irish republicanism, Jackie McDonald, Jake Burns, James Craig (loyalist), James Stronge (Mid-Armagh MP), John Hanna (prison officer), John Hermon, John Hume, John Turnley, Ken Kerr, Larne, Lisburn, Martin Dillon, Michael Farrell (activist), Michael Stone (loyalist), Miriam Daly, Modern Paganism, Norman Stronge, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Policing Board, Operation Flavius, Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom), ..., Peter Robinson (Northern Ireland politician), Peter Taylor (journalist), Protestantism, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Queen's University Belfast, Ray Smallwoods, Republic of Ireland, Robert Bradford (Northern Irish politician), Ronnie Bunting, Rosena Brown, Royal Ulster Constabulary, Sammy McCormick, Sandy Row, Sean O'Callaghan, Seán Savage, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Sinn Féin, Social Democratic and Labour Party, Special Air Service, Special Branch, Springfield Road, Stiff Little Fingers, The Troubles, Think tank, Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater, Tomás Ó Fiaich, Tommy Lyttle, Tynan Abbey, UDA South Belfast Brigade, UDA West Belfast Brigade, Ulster, Ulster Clubs, Ulster Defence Association, Ulster Democratic Party, Ulster Hall, Ulster loyalism, Ulster nationalism, Ulster Political Research Group, Ulster University, Unionism in Ireland. Expand index (40 more) »
Andy Tyrie
Andrew "Andy" Tyrie (born 5 February 1940) is an Ulster loyalist and served as commander of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) during much of its early history.
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Anglo-Irish Agreement
The Anglo-Irish Agreement was a 1985 treaty between the United Kingdom and Ireland which aimed to help bring an end to the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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Apprentice Boys of Derry
The Apprentice Boys of Derry is a Protestant fraternal society with a worldwide membership of over 10,000, founded in 1814 and based in the city of Derry, Northern Ireland.
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Armalite and ballot box strategy
The Armalite and ballot box strategy was a strategy pursued by the Irish republican movement in the 1980s and early 1990s in which elections in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland were contested by Sinn Féin, while the IRA continued to pursue an armed struggle against the British Army, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, and loyalist paramilitary groups.
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Belfast South (UK Parliament constituency)
Belfast South is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons.
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Belfast South by-election, 1982
The Belfast South by-election was held on 4 March 1982 following the death of Robert Bradford, Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) Member of Parliament for Belfast South.
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Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
Josephine Bernadette McAliskey (née Devlin; born 23 April 1947), usually known as Bernadette Devlin or Bernadette McAliskey, is an Irish civil rights leader and former politician.
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Brian Nelson (Northern Irish loyalist)
Brian Nelson (30 September 1947 – 11 April 2003) was an Ulster loyalist paramilitary during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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Car bomb
A car bomb, lorry bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive device placed inside a car or other vehicle and detonated.
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Church of Ireland
The Church of Ireland (Eaglais na hÉireann; Ulster-Scots: Kirk o Airlann) is a Christian church in Ireland and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion.
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Coalisland
Coalisland is a small town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, with a population of 5,700 in 2011.
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County Antrim
County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim)) is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of and has a population of about 618,000. County Antrim has a population density of 203 people per square kilometre or 526 people per square mile. It is also one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland, as well as part of the historic province of Ulster. The Glens of Antrim offer isolated rugged landscapes, the Giant's Causeway is a unique landscape and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Bushmills produces whiskey, and Portrush is a popular seaside resort and night-life area. The majority of Belfast, the capital city of Northern Ireland, is in County Antrim, with the remainder being in County Down. It is currently one of only two counties of Ireland to have a majority of the population from a Protestant background, according to the 2001 census. The other is County Down to the south.
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County Tyrone
County Tyrone is one of the six historic counties of Northern Ireland.
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Danny Morrison (Irish republican)
Daniel Gerard Morrison (born 9 January 1953), known generally as Danny Morrison, is a former IRA volunteer, Irish author and activist who played a crucial role in public events during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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David Trimble
William David Trimble, Baron Trimble, PC (born 15 October 1944), is a British politician who was the first First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002, and the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) from 1995 to 2005.
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Dromore, County Down
Dromore is a small market town and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland.
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Force Research Unit
The Force Research Unit (FRU) is a covert military intelligence unit of the British Army part of the Intelligence Corps.
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Gary McMichael
Gary McMichael (born 1969) is a Northern Irish former politician, who served as leader of the now defunct Ulster Democratic Party (UDP).
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Gibraltar
Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Henry McDonald (writer)
Henry McDonald is a writer and Ireland correspondent for The Guardian and Observer.
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HighBeam Research
HighBeam Research is a paid search engine and full text online archive owned by Gale, a subsidiary Cengage, for thousands of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines, and encyclopedias in English.
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HM Prison Maze
Her Majesty's Prison Maze (previously Long Kesh Detention Centre and known colloquially as the Maze Prison, The Maze, the H Blocks or Long Kesh) was a prison in Northern Ireland that was used to house paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles from mid-1971 to mid-2000.
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Ian Adamson
Dr Ian Adamson OBE (born 28 June 1944) is a former Lord Mayor of Belfast.
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Ian Paisley
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, (6 April 1926 – 12 September 2014), was a loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland.
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Incendiary device
Incendiary weapons, incendiary devices or incendiary bombs are weapons designed to start fires or destroy sensitive equipment using fire (and sometimes used as anti-personnel weaponry), that use materials such as napalm, thermite, magnesium powder, chlorine trifluoride, or white phosphorus.
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Irish Independence Party
The Irish Independence Party (IIP) was a nationalist political party in Northern Ireland, founded in October 1977 p. 135.
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Irish National Liberation Army
The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA, Arm Saoirse Náisiúnta na hÉireann) is an Irish republican socialist paramilitary group formed on 10 December 1974, during "the Troubles".
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Irish Republican Socialist Party
The Irish Republican Socialist Party or IRSP (Páirtí Poblachtach Sóisialach na hÉireann) is a republican socialist party active in Ireland.
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Irish republicanism
Irish republicanism (poblachtánachas Éireannach) is an ideology based on the belief that all of Ireland should be an independent republic.
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Jackie McDonald
John "Jackie" McDonald (born 2 August 1947) is a senior Northern Irish loyalist and the incumbent Ulster Defence Association (UDA) brigadier for South Belfast, having been promoted to the rank by former UDA commander Andy Tyrie in 1988, following John McMichael's killing by the Provisional IRA in December 1987.
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Jake Burns
John "Jake" Burns (born 21 February 1958, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a singer and guitarist, and is best known as the frontman of Stiff Little Fingers.
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James Craig (loyalist)
James Pratt Craig (17 November 1941 – 15 October 1988) was an Ulster loyalist paramilitary during the paramilitary war in Ulster in the latter half of the 20th Century, who was a member of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), and was a command member of its Inner Council.
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James Stronge (Mid-Armagh MP)
Major James Matthew Stronge (21 June 1932 – 21 January 1981) was a soldier and Ulster Unionist Party MP in the Parliament of Northern Ireland, and the later Northern Ireland Assembly.
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John Hanna (prison officer)
Christopher John Hanna (c. 1947 – 27 December 1992), was a prison officer who held a senior position inside the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland.
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John Hermon
Sir John Charles Hermon, OBE, QPM (23 November 1928 – 6 November 2008) was the Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary from 1980–1989.
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John Hume
John Hume, KCSG (born 18 January 1937) is an Irish former politician from Derry, Northern Ireland.
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John Turnley
John Turnley (1935 – 5 June 1980) was an Irish politician and activist.
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Ken Kerr
Kenneth Jason Kerr, known as "Ken", is a Northern Irish loyalist activist.
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Larne
Larne (the name of a Gaelic territory) is a seaport and industrial market town, as well as a civil parish, on the east coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland, with a population of 18,323 people in the 2008 Estimate.
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Lisburn
Lisburn (or; meaning "fort of the stream", probably) is a city in Northern Ireland.
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Martin Dillon
Martin Dillon (born 2 June 1949) is a Northern Irish author, journalist, and radio/television producer/broadcaster.
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Michael Farrell (activist)
Michael Farrell (born 1944) is an Irish civil rights activist, writer and former leader of People's Democracy, from its inception through to the 1969 Burntollet Bridge incident and into the 1970s.
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Michael Stone (loyalist)
Michael Stone (born 2 April 1955) is an Ulster loyalist who was a volunteer in the Ulster Defence Association (UDA).
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Miriam Daly
Miriam Daly (1928 – 26 June 1980) was an Irish republican activist and university lecturer who was assassinated by the loyalist Ulster Defence Association (UDA).
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Modern Paganism
Modern Paganism, also known as Contemporary Paganism and Neopaganism, is a collective term for new religious movements influenced by or claiming to be derived from the various historical pagan beliefs of pre-modern Europe, North Africa and the Near East.
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Norman Stronge
Sir Charles Norman Lockhart Stronge, 8th Baronet, MC, PC, JP (23 July 1894 – 21 January 1981), was a senior Ulster Unionist Party politician in Northern Ireland.
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.
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Northern Ireland Policing Board
The Northern Ireland Policing Board (Bord Póilíneachta Thuaisceart Éireann, Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlan Polisin Boord) is the police authority for Northern Ireland, charged with supervising the activities of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
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Operation Flavius
Operation Flavius (also referred to as the "Gibraltar killings") was a controversial military operation in which three members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) were shot dead by the British Special Air Service (SAS) in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988.
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Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)
The Parachute Regiment, colloquially known as the Paras, is an elite airborne infantry regiment of the British Army.
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Peter Robinson (Northern Ireland politician)
Peter David Robinson (born 29 December 1948) is a retired Irish politician who was First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2008 until his retirement in 2016, and Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from 2008 until 2015.
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Peter Taylor (journalist)
Peter Taylor, is a British journalist and documentary-maker.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.
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Provisional Irish Republican Army
The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA or Provisional IRA) was an Irish republican revolutionary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate the reunification of Ireland and bring about an independent socialist republic encompassing all of Ireland.
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Queen's University Belfast
Queen's University Belfast (informally Queen's or QUB) is a public research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Ray Smallwoods
Raymond "Ray" Smallwoods (c. 1949 – 11 July 1994) was a Northern Ireland politician and sometime leader of the Ulster Democratic Party.
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Republic of Ireland
Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland.
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Robert Bradford (Northern Irish politician)
Reverend Robert Jonathan Bradford (8 June 1941 – 14 November 1981) was a Methodist Minister and a Vanguard Unionist and Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for the Belfast South constituency in Northern Ireland until his assassination by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on 14 November 1981.
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Ronnie Bunting
Ronnie Bunting (1947/1948 – 15 October 1980) was a Protestant Irish republican and socialist activist in Ireland.
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Rosena Brown
Rosena Brown (Róisín De Brún; born c.1945) is an Irish actress of television, cinema, and stage from Belfast, Northern Ireland who also served as an intelligence officer for the Provisional IRA.
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Royal Ulster Constabulary
The Royal Ulster Constabulary was the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001.
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Sammy McCormick
Samuel McCormick was a Northern Irish loyalist who served from 1973 until the 1980s as the brigadier for the Ulster Defence Association's (UDA) East Belfast Brigade.
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Sandy Row
Sandy Row is a street in south Belfast, Northern Ireland. It lends its name to the surrounding residential community, which is predominantly Protestant working-class. The Sandy Row area had a population of 2,153 in 2001. It is a staunchly loyalist area of Belfast, being a traditional heartland for affiliation with the paramilitary Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Orange Order.
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Sean O'Callaghan
Sean O'Callaghan (26 January 1954 – 23 August 2017) was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).
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Seán Savage
Seán Savage (Seán Sabhaois) (26 January 1965 – 6 March 1988) was an Irish volunteer of the Provisional IRA who was shot and killed by British Army Special Air Service (SAS) soldiers in Operation Flavius.
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Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, informally known as the Northern Ireland Secretary, is the principal secretary of state in Her Majesty's Government with responsibilities for Northern Ireland.
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Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin (isbn) is a left-wing Irish republican political party active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Social Democratic and Labour Party
The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) is a social-democratic and Irish nationalist political party in Northern Ireland.
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Special Air Service
The Special Air Service (SAS) is a special forces unit of the British Army.
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Special Branch
Special Branch is a label customarily used to identify units responsible for matters of national security and intelligence in British and Commonwealth police forces, as well as in Ireland and the Royal Malaysian Police.
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Springfield Road
The Springfield Road is a residential area and road traffic thoroughfare adjacent to the Falls Road in west Belfast.
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Stiff Little Fingers
Stiff Little Fingers are a punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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The Troubles
The Troubles (Na Trioblóidí) was an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland during the late 20th century.
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Think tank
A think tank, think factory or policy institute is a research institute/center and organisation that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture.
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Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater
Thomas Jeremy King, Baron King of Bridgwater, (born 13 June 1933) is a British politician.
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Tomás Ó Fiaich
Tomás Séamus Cardinal Ó Fiaich (3 November 1923 – 8 May 1990) was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Tommy Lyttle
Tommy "Tucker" Lyttle (c. 1939 – 18 October 1995), was a high-ranking Ulster loyalist during the period of religious-political conflict in Northern Ireland known as "the Troubles".
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Tynan Abbey
Tynan Abbey in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, was a large neo-gothic-romantic country house built c. 1750 (later renovated c. 1815) and situated outside the village of Tynan.
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UDA South Belfast Brigade
The UDA South Belfast Brigade is the section of the Ulster loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), based in the southern quarter of Belfast, as well as in surrounding areas.
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UDA West Belfast Brigade
The UDA West Belfast Brigade is the section of the Ulster loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), based in the western quarter of Belfast, in the Greater Shankill area.
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Ulster
Ulster (Ulaidh or Cúige Uladh, Ulster Scots: Ulstèr or Ulster) is a province in the north of the island of Ireland.
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Ulster Clubs
The Ulster Clubs was the name given to a network of unionist organisations founded in Northern Ireland in November 1985.
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Ulster Defence Association
The Ulster Defence Association (abbreviated UDA) is the largest Ulster loyalist paramilitary and vigilante group in Northern Ireland.
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Ulster Democratic Party
The Ulster Democratic Party (UDP) was a small loyalist political party in Northern Ireland.
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Ulster Hall
The Ulster Hall is a concert hall and grade B1 listed building in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Ulster loyalism
Ulster loyalism is a political ideology found primarily among working class Ulster Protestants in Northern Ireland, whose status as a part of the United Kingdom has remained controversial.
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Ulster nationalism
Ulster nationalism is a school of thought in Northern Ireland politics that seeks the independence of Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom without joining the Republic of Ireland, thereby becoming an independent sovereign state separate from both.
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Ulster Political Research Group
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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Ulster University
Ulster University (Ollscoil Uladh, Ulster Scots: Ulstèr Universitie or Ulstèr Varsitie), officially the University of Ulster, is a multi-campus public university located in Northern Ireland.
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Unionism in Ireland
Unionism in Ireland is a political ideology that favours the continuation of some form of political union between the islands of Ireland and Great Britain.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McMichael
