Ulster Protestant Volunteers
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The Ulster Protestant Volunteers were a loyalist paramilitary group established in Ulster in the late 1960s, to prevent Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill from introducing reforms in the governance of Northern Ireland.[1]
The UPV has been linked to the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee (UCDC), established by Ian Paisley in 1966. The UPV launched a bombing campaign to destabilise the Northern Ireland government. It also took part in most of the counter-demonstrations organised by Paisley against the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association marches of the late 1960s. The motto of the UPV was "For God and Ulster". Many of its members also belonged to the Ulster Volunteer Force.[2]
