Ulster Independence Movement
The Ulster Independence Movement was an Ulster nationalist political party founded (as the Ulster Independence Committee) on 17 November 1988. The group emerged from the Ulster Clubs, after a series of 15 public meetings across Northern Ireland. Led by Hugh Ross, a Presbyterian minister from Dungannon, County Tyrone, the UIC sought to end what it saw as the tyranny of rule from London and Dublin and instead set up an independent Northern Ireland.
Read more about Ulster Independence Movement: Early Development, 1996 Forum Election, Subsequent Activity
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