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*[[Jackie Thompson]] 2003.<ref name'="ToomanyChiefs">Rosie Cowan, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/feb/04/northernireland.northernireland Too many chiefs led to loyalist bloodshed], ''The Guardian, 4 February 2003.</ref>
 
*[[Jackie Thompson]] 2003.<ref name'="ToomanyChiefs">Rosie Cowan, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/feb/04/northernireland.northernireland Too many chiefs led to loyalist bloodshed], ''The Guardian, 4 February 2003.</ref>
 
*[[Matt Kincaid]]<ref>Alan Murphy, Expulsions are two-fingers to mainstream UDA, ''Sunday Life'', 30 July 2006.</ref>
 
*[[Matt Kincaid]]<ref>Alan Murphy, Expulsions are two-fingers to mainstream UDA, ''Sunday Life'', 30 July 2006.</ref>
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===North Belfast Brigadier===
 
===North Belfast Brigadier===
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*[[Andre Shoukri]] c-2002.<ref name'="ToomanyChiefs">Rosie Cowan, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/feb/04/northernireland.northernireland Too many chiefs led to loyalist bloodshed], ''The Guardian, 4 February 2003.</ref>
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[[Davy Payne]]<ref>Ian S. Wood, ''Crimes of Loyalty, A History of the UDA, Edinburgh University Press, 2006, p.60.</ref>
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*John Reid, according to Ian S. Wood, possibly a misprint for Tom Reid.<ref>Ian S. Wood, ''Crimes of Loyalty, A History of the UDA, Edinburgh University Press, 2006, p.186.</ref>
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*[[Andre Shoukri]] c.-2002.<ref name'="ToomanyChiefs">Rosie Cowan, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/feb/04/northernireland.northernireland Too many chiefs led to loyalist bloodshed], ''The Guardian, 4 February 2003.</ref>
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*[[Ihab Shoukri]] c.2003.<ref>Roddy McGregor, [http://www.nuzhound.com/articles/irish_news/arts2003/jul28_UPRG_unaware_of_threats.php  Gallagher 'not aware' of death threat to Shoukri], ''Irish News'', 28 July 2003, archived at nuzhound.com.</ref>
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*[[William John Borland]]<ref>Laura Friel, [http://republican-news.org/archive/2003/September11/11loy.html Mechanisms of exclusion], ''An Phoblacht/Republican News'', 11 September 2003.</ref>
 
===East Belfast Brigadier===
 
===East Belfast Brigadier===
 
*[[Tommy Herron]]<ref>Ciaran De Baroid, Ballymurphy and the Irish War, Pluto Press, 2000, p.152.</ref>
 
*[[Tommy Herron]]<ref>Ciaran De Baroid, Ballymurphy and the Irish War, Pluto Press, 2000, p.152.</ref>
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*[[Ned McCreery]] -1992.<ref>Angelique Chrisafis, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/oct/12/northernireland.ukcrime The death of Doris Day], ''The Guardian'', 12 October 2005.</ref>
 
*[[Ned McCreery]] -1992.<ref>Angelique Chrisafis, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/oct/12/northernireland.ukcrime The death of Doris Day], ''The Guardian'', 12 October 2005.</ref>
 
*[[Jim Gray]]<ref name'="ToomanyChiefs">Rosie Cowan, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/feb/04/northernireland.northernireland Too many chiefs led to loyalist bloodshed], ''The Guardian, 4 February 2003.</ref>
 
*[[Jim Gray]]<ref name'="ToomanyChiefs">Rosie Cowan, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/feb/04/northernireland.northernireland Too many chiefs led to loyalist bloodshed], ''The Guardian, 4 February 2003.</ref>
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===South Belfast Brigadier===
 
===South Belfast Brigadier===
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*[[John McMichael]]<ref>Ian S. Wood, ''Crimes of Loyalty, A History of the UDA, Edinburgh University Press, 2006, p.118.</ref>
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*[[Alex Kerr]]<ref>Ian S. Wood, ''Crimes of Loyalty, A History of the UDA, Edinburgh University Press, 2006, p.205.</ref>
 
*[[Jackie McDonald]]<ref name'="ToomanyChiefs">Rosie Cowan, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/feb/04/northernireland.northernireland Too many chiefs led to loyalist bloodshed], ''The Guardian, 4 February 2003.</ref>
 
*[[Jackie McDonald]]<ref name'="ToomanyChiefs">Rosie Cowan, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/feb/04/northernireland.northernireland Too many chiefs led to loyalist bloodshed], ''The Guardian, 4 February 2003.</ref>
 
===South-East Antrim Brigadier===
 
===South-East Antrim Brigadier===
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*[[Alan Snoddie]] -1988.<ref>Ian S. Wood, ''Crimes of Loyalty, A History of the UDA, Edinburgh University Press, 2006, p.136.</ref>
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*[[Joe English]]<ref>Ian S. Wood, ''Crimes of Loyalty, A History of the UDA, Edinburgh University Press, 2006, p.186.</ref>
 
*[[John "Grugg" Gregg]] -2003.<ref name'="ToomanyChiefs">Rosie Cowan, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/feb/04/northernireland.northernireland Too many chiefs led to loyalist bloodshed], ''The Guardian, 4 February 2003.</ref>
 
*[[John "Grugg" Gregg]] -2003.<ref name'="ToomanyChiefs">Rosie Cowan, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/feb/04/northernireland.northernireland Too many chiefs led to loyalist bloodshed], ''The Guardian, 4 February 2003.</ref>
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*[[Gary Fisher]]<ref>Brian Rowan, [http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uda-expels-south-east-antrim-brigade-chiefs-13428608.html UDA expels south east Antrim brigade chiefs], ''Belfast Telegraph, 29 March 2007.</ref>
 
===Londonderry and North Antrim Brigadier===
 
===Londonderry and North Antrim Brigadier===
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*[[Billy McFarlane]]<ref name'="ToomanyChiefs">Rosie Cowan, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/feb/04/northernireland.northernireland Too many chiefs led to loyalist bloodshed], ''The Guardian, 4 February 2003.</ref>
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*[[Billy McFarland]]<ref name'="ToomanyChiefs">Rosie Cowan, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/feb/04/northernireland.northernireland Too many chiefs led to loyalist bloodshed], ''The Guardian, 4 February 2003.</ref>
  
 
==External Resources==
 
==External Resources==

Revision as of 17:40, 17 June 2012

The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is a loyalist paramilitary organisation in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1971 as an umbrella organisation for a number of existing loyalist groups. It remained legal until 1991.[1]

Origin

According to journalist Martin Dillon, the UDA emerged during the early years of the Troubles out of conversations involving the unionist politician William Craig after he was rebuffed in meetings with the Ulster Volunteer Force in 1970. he then turned turned his attention to the idea of a new paramilitary organisation with a legal framework, and held discussions with loyalist figures including William McGrath, John McKeague, Charles Harding Smith and Tommy Herron.[2]

In July 1971, Harding Smith, the head of the Woodvale Defence Association was involved in drafting a statement calling for loyalists to form themselves into armed platoons of 20 to be integrated into an incipient command structure.[3]

The formation of the Ulster Defence Association was proposed in September 1971 as an umbrella organisation for the various 'Protestant Defence Associations'.[4]

People

Chairman

West Belfast Brigadier

North Belfast Brigadier

Davy Payne[16]

East Belfast Brigadier

South Belfast Brigadier

South-East Antrim Brigadier

Londonderry and North Antrim Brigadier

External Resources

Notes

  1. ↑ Ulster Defence Association, Northern Ireland: The Troubles - Fact Files, BBC, accessed 21 November 2001.
  2. ↑ Martin Dillon, The Trigger Men, Mainstream Publishing, 2003, p.173.
  3. ↑ Martin Dillon, The Trigger Men, Mainstream Publishing, 2003, p.183.
  4. ↑ Colin Crawford, Inside the UDA: Volunteers and Violence, Pluto Ireland, 2003, p.20.
  5. ↑ Robert Fisk, The Point of No Return, The Strike which broke the British in Ulster, André Deutsch, 1975, p.355.
  6. ↑ Martin Dillon, The Trigger Men, Mainstream Publishing, 2003, p.183.
  7. ↑ W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliot, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.270.
  8. ↑ Alan Murray, YOUNG BLOODS TILL UDA'S KILLING FIELDS, The Guardian, 11 August 1992.
  9. ↑ Alan Murray, YOUNG BLOODS TILL UDA'S KILLING FIELDS, The Guardian, 11 August 1992.
  10. ↑ Ian S. Wood, Crimes of Loyalty, A History of the UDA, Edinburgh University Press, 2006, p.155.
  11. ↑ Rosie Cowan, Too many chiefs led to loyalist bloodshed, The Guardian, 4 February 2003.
  12. ↑ David Lister, Godfathers who threaten the peace, The Times, 25 July 2002.
  13. ↑ Rosie Cowan, Too many chiefs led to loyalist bloodshed, The Guardian, 4 February 2003.
  14. ↑ Rosie Cowan, Too many chiefs led to loyalist bloodshed, The Guardian, 4 February 2003.
  15. ↑ Alan Murphy, Expulsions are two-fingers to mainstream UDA, Sunday Life, 30 July 2006.
  16. ↑ Ian S. Wood, Crimes of Loyalty, A History of the UDA, Edinburgh University Press, 2006, p.60.
  17. ↑ Ian S. Wood, Crimes of Loyalty, A History of the UDA, Edinburgh University Press, 2006, p.186.
  18. ↑ Rosie Cowan, Too many chiefs led to loyalist bloodshed, The Guardian, 4 February 2003.
  19. ↑ Roddy McGregor, Gallagher 'not aware' of death threat to Shoukri, Irish News, 28 July 2003, archived at nuzhound.com.
  20. ↑ Laura Friel, Mechanisms of exclusion, An Phoblacht/Republican News, 11 September 2003.
  21. ↑ Ciaran De Baroid, Ballymurphy and the Irish War, Pluto Press, 2000, p.152.
  22. ↑ Protestant Paramilitary Leaders Arrested, Associated Press, 14 April 1982.
  23. ↑ Alan Murray, YOUNG BLOODS TILL UDA'S KILLING FIELDS, The Guardian, 11 August 1992.
  24. ↑ Angelique Chrisafis, The death of Doris Day, The Guardian, 12 October 2005.
  25. ↑ Rosie Cowan, Too many chiefs led to loyalist bloodshed, The Guardian, 4 February 2003.
  26. ↑ Ian S. Wood, Crimes of Loyalty, A History of the UDA, Edinburgh University Press, 2006, p.118.
  27. ↑ Ian S. Wood, Crimes of Loyalty, A History of the UDA, Edinburgh University Press, 2006, p.205.
  28. ↑ Rosie Cowan, Too many chiefs led to loyalist bloodshed, The Guardian, 4 February 2003.
  29. ↑ Ian S. Wood, Crimes of Loyalty, A History of the UDA, Edinburgh University Press, 2006, p.136.
  30. ↑ Ian S. Wood, Crimes of Loyalty, A History of the UDA, Edinburgh University Press, 2006, p.186.
  31. ↑ Rosie Cowan, Too many chiefs led to loyalist bloodshed, The Guardian, 4 February 2003.
  32. ↑ Brian Rowan, UDA expels south east Antrim brigade chiefs, Belfast Telegraph, 29 March 2007.
  33. ↑ Rosie Cowan, Too many chiefs led to loyalist bloodshed, The Guardian, 4 February 2003.
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