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- Ulster_Service_Corps abstract "The Ulster Service Corps (USC) was a loyalist vigilante group with a paramilitary structure active in Northern Ireland in the late 1970s. Although short-lived it briefly had a sizeable membership. One of a number of small independent loyalist paramilitary groups active in the mid 1970s, alongside the Orange Volunteers, Ulster Volunteer Service Corps, Down Orange Welfare and the Ulster Special Constabulary Association (USCA), the USC was the largest of these minor groups.Made up of former members of the Ulster Special Constabulary it retained much of that organisation's structure and enjoyed strong support in some rural areas of Northern Ireland. Most of those who established the group had been members of the USCA, which had disbanded around a year before the establishment of the USC.The group was established in 1976 by the United Unionist Action Council, a sub-committee of the United Ulster Unionist Council (UUUC). It had links to the Orange Order and held meetings at Orange halls but the Order decided against establishing any formal links with the USC, instead continuing to encourage its members to join the official security forces rather than vigilante groups.During early 1977 it set up roadblocks in parts of County Londonderry, County Armagh and County Tyrone and also claimed to have spent time observing Provisional Irish Republican Army \"safe houses\" in order to collect data on them. During its roadblocks and related patrols some members of the USC carried guns, although these were generally legally held firearms. During a speech in the House of Commons Ian Paisley even claimed that he had participated in these patrols and both he and Ernest Baird promoted the USC and encouraged their supporters to seek membership of the group. Baird hoped that he could use the USC as his private army in the event of civil unrest resulting from the UUAC strike of 1977.Its relationship with the security forces was complicated and subject to a number of counter-claims. The Social Democratic and Labour Party claimed that the group was involved in collusion with the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) and that the two groups even conducted joint patrols in Mid-Ulster. The USC itself confirmed that it worked with members of both the UDR and the Royal Ulster Constabulary although the security forces strenuously denied that any such activity took place.A number of its members were brought to court for public order offences and it was condemned by the government, who accused the group of wasting time by forcing them to divert much needed security forces away from their activities in order to deal with USC roadblocks and obstruction. Nonetheless its claims to be purely a defensive organisation were accepted and, as was the case with the Ulster Defence Association at the time, no attempt was made to ban the group.The fate of the USC is unclear although the failure of the 1977 strike saw the collapse of the UUUC and an end to the Baird-Paisley alliance.".
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- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Category:1976_establishments_in_Northern_Ireland.
- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Category:Militant_unionism.
- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Category:Paramilitary_organizations.
- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLink County_Armagh.
- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLink County_Londonderry.
- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLink County_Tyrone.
- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Down_Orange_Welfare.
- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Ernest_Baird.
- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLink House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Ian_Paisley.
- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Northern_Ireland.
- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Orange_Order.
- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Orange_Volunteers_(1972).
- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army.
- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Ulster_Constabulary.
- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Social_Democratic_and_Labour_Party.
- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Ulster_Defence_Association.
- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Ulster_Defence_Regiment.
- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Ulster_Special_Constabulary.
- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Ulster_Special_Constabulary_Association.
- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Ulster_Volunteer_Service_Corps.
- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLink Ulster_loyalism.
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- Ulster_Service_Corps wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ulster Service Corps".
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- Ulster_Service_Corps subject Category:1976_establishments_in_Northern_Ireland.
- Ulster_Service_Corps subject Category:Militant_unionism.
- Ulster_Service_Corps subject Category:Paramilitary_organizations.
- Ulster_Service_Corps hypernym Group.
- Ulster_Service_Corps type Band.
- Ulster_Service_Corps comment "The Ulster Service Corps (USC) was a loyalist vigilante group with a paramilitary structure active in Northern Ireland in the late 1970s. Although short-lived it briefly had a sizeable membership.".
- Ulster_Service_Corps label "Ulster Service Corps".
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- Ulster_Service_Corps wasDerivedFrom Ulster_Service_Corps?oldid=664600923.
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