Later 20th Century/current Politics, Military, Police and Paramilitary
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- Ulster loyalism - a militant Unionist ideology held mostly by Protestants in Northern Ireland,
- Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) - paramilitary loyalist group founded in 1966 and claiming the heritage of the earlier UVF
- Ulster Defence Association - another loyalist paramilitary group
- Ulster Democratic Party (UDP)/Ulster Loyalist Democratic Party/ New Ulster Political Research Group - political parties and groupings at different times linked to the above.
- Ulster Young Militants youth of the above
- Ulster Defence Regiment - formed in 1970 to replace the USC (Ulster Special Constabulary).
- Royal Ulster Constabulary - Northern Ireland police force often accused of pro-Unionist bias, merged into the Police Service of Northern Ireland following the Good Friday Agreement
- The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland
- Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, founded in 1951 by the cleric and politician Ian Paisley
- Ulster nationalism - school of thought seeking the independence of Northern Ireland from the UK without becoming part of the Republic of Ireland.
- Ulster Independence Movement - supporting the above.
- The Ulster Third Way - supporting the above.
- Ulster Loyalist Central Co-ordinating Committee/Ulster Independence Party/Ulster Independence Association - political party and paramilitary organization in the 1970s and 1980s
- Ulster Resistance - 1980s paramilitary
- Ulster Clubs - Unionist organisation in the 1980s
- Ulster Movement for Self-Determination - minor movement which emerged from the above
- Love Ulster - umbrella unionist victims' group
- British Army:
- 152nd (Ulster) Transport Regiment - in the UK Territorial Army.
- 107 (Ulster) Brigade
- 40 (Ulster) Signal Regiment
- 206 (Ulster) Battery, Royal Artillery
- Ulster Workers Council - a Loyalist workers' organisation
- Ulster Workers' Council Strike - 1974 general strike by the above, against the proposed power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement
- Ulster Protestant Volunteers/Ulster Constitution Defence Committee - 1960s paramilitaries
- United Ulster Unionist Party - political party between 1975 and 1982.
- Ulster Army Council 1973 coordination of Loyalist paramilitaries
- Ulster Project - promoting reconciliation
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