The Covenanters sent Sending an army to Ulster in Ireland in 1642 to protect Defending the Scottish settlers there .

The bombings Attack happened during the Ulster Workers ' Council strike .

The survivors said Statement that most of the gunmen wore Wearing police uniforms and it is suspected Suspicion that they were members of the Ulster Special Constabulary .

The IRA aimed Aiming to assassinate the leadership of the loyalist Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ) , attending Participation a meeting above Frizzell 's fish shop on the Shankill Road , Belfast .

There have been allegations that police ( Royal Ulster Constabulary ) double agents or informers in the UVF were linked Connect to the massacre and that police protected Preventing_or_letting those informers by destroying Destroying evidence and failing to carry out a proper investigation Criminal_investigation .

On 5 February , the Ulster loyalist Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ) retaliated Revenge by shooting Use_firearm dead five Catholics at a betting shop in an Irish nationalist area of Belfast .

On 5 February , the Ulster loyalist Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ) retaliated Revenge by shooting Use_firearm dead five Catholics at a betting shop in an Irish nationalist area of Belfast .

During the large funeral of three Provisional IRA members killed in Gibraltar , an Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ) member , Michael Stone , attacked Attack the mourners with hand grenades and pistols .

The Armagh rail disaster Catastrophe happened on 12 June 1889 near Armagh , Ulster , Ireland , when a crowded Sunday school excursion train had to negotiate Motion a steep incline ; the steam locomotive was unable to complete Process_end the climb and the train stalled Temporary_stay .

On 24 August 2010 , following an eight-year investigation Criminal_investigation , the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland published Publishing a report Reporting into the bombing Attack , which stated Statement that the Royal Ulster Constabulary believed in Know the early 1970s that Father James Chesney , a local Roman Catholic priest , was the IRA 's quartermaster and Director of Operations of the South Derry Brigade .

It has been alleged Statement that the British , Irish , and US intelligence agencies had information which could have prevented Preventing_or_letting the bombing Terrorism , most of which came from double agents inside the Real IRA , but this information was not given Giving to the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) .

The Ulster Volunteer Force replicated IRA actions with a series of bombings Attack in the Republic of Ireland in 1974 .

The fighting Hostile_encounter was between residents of the Bogside area ( organised Arranging under the Derry Citizens ' Defence Association ) , and the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) along with local unionists .

Troops of the 36th ( Ulster ) Division captured Conquering the redoubt on 1 July 1916 , until forced out by German bombardments Attack and counter-attacks Attack after night had fallen .

In late September , the British gained Getting a footing in the redoubt , during the Battle of Thiepval Ridge Attack and counter-attack followed until 14 October , when troops of the 39th Division , captured Conquering the last German foothold in the redoubt and repulsed Defending German counter-attacks from The site of the redoubt lies between the Thiepval Memorial and the Ulster Tower .

As a response Response , Ulster loyalists held Defending street protests Attack throughout Northern Ireland .

The Irish War Hostile_encounter of Independence ( ) or Anglo-Irish War Hostile_encounter was a guerrilla war Hostile_encounter fought Hostile_encounter in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army ( IRA , the army of the Irish Republic ) and British forces Military_operation : the British Army , along with the quasi-military Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ) and its paramilitary forces Military_operation the Auxiliaries and Ulster Special Constabulary ( USC ) .

The conflict Hostile_encounter in north-east Ulster had a sectarian aspect .

The Williamite victories at Derry and the Boyne are still celebrated Social_event by some , mostly Ulster Protestant , unionists in Ireland today .

The shootings were part of a string of attacks on Catholics and Irish nationalists by the `` Glenanne gang '' ; an alliance of loyalist militants , British soldiers and Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) police officers .

The next day , gunmen shot Use_firearm dead ten Ulster Protestant civilians in the Kingsmill massacre .

In the late hours of January 1 , Met Éireann issued Creating a national severe weather warning Warning for Connacht and Ulster and forecasters predicting winds speeds up to 87 mph with heavy driving rain .

A report later found Know that the police ( Royal Ulster Constabulary ) were biased Judgment_communication in favour of this view Perception_active , and that this hindered Hindering their investigation .