British Military Intelligence During the Troubles (1969-1984)

     The Ulster Volunteer Force, an ally of the Ulster Defense Association, was formed as a modern resurrection of its namesake early-20th century counterpart. The group, like most others, administered to the paramilitary ceasefire in 1994 and eventually agreed to adhere to the Good Friday Agreement of 1994. Officially listed as a terrorist group, the UVF undertook a near thirty-year campaign against the IRA. 

     Like the UDA, the UVF was created to defend Protestants from Irish ultranationalists, but more importantly, to maintain its roots with the United Kingdom. The group was responsible for several attacks, mostly against Irish Catholics, inclding: the 1971 McGurk's Bar bombing, in which fifteen civilians were killed, the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings, in which 34 civilians were killed.