Crimes of Loyalty: A History of the UDAEdinburgh University Press, 2006 - 398 páginas Sectarian murder, torture, bloody power struggles and racketeering are what for many define their image of the Ulster Defence Association. Yet as Northern Ireland's Troubles worsened in 1971 and 1972, it emerged with a mass membership to defend Loyalist areas against the IRA and to uphold the Union with Britain. By 1974 it was able to defy the will of an elected government and it went on to formulate political strategies for working-class Loyalism.Ian S. Wood uses his specialist knowledge as well as extensive interviews to recount these events and the ruthless war waged by the UDA on the nationalist community. He explores issues such as the UDA's descent into criminality and its relationship with the 'secret war' conducted by Britain's undercover services and he assesses what impact the organisation had on the outcome of Europe's worst political and ethnic conflict between 1945 and the break-up of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia after 1990. |
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The UDA and the 1974 Ulster Workers Council Strike | 28 |
Political Initiatives and Political Defeats | 57 |
The Campaign against the AngloIrish Agreement | 79 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Andy Tyrie announced Antrim April Ardoyne army arrested attacks August Belfast Agreement Belfast brigade Belfast UDA British Catholic claimed CLMC club command Company death December Drumcree Dublin elections February Finucane Fogel Gerry Adams Gregg gunmen Harding Smith Ibid INLA Inner Council interview with author involved IRA's Irish issue January John John McMichael Johnny Adair July June killers killing later leaders London Lower Shankill Loyalist areas Lyttle March McMichael murder nationalist North Belfast Northern Ireland November October operations Orange Order organisation Paisley parade peace process police political Portadown power-sharing prison Protestant Rathcoole Republican role Sammy Duddy Scotland Scottish SDLP sectarian security forces September Shankill Road shot dead Sinn Fein Stevens inquiry Stormont Street strike Sunday World talks target told took UDA members UDA's UDA/UFF Ulster Defence Ulster Loyalist Unionist Party victims violence West Belfast Woodvale
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Historical Dictionary of the Northern Ireland Conflict Gordon Gillespie No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2008 |