Shankill Road
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The Shankill Road is one of the main roads leading through West Belfast, in Northern Ireland. It runs through the working-class, predominantly loyalist, area known as the Shankill.
Divis Mountain from the Shankill
Loyalists and Orangemen looting Catholic owned bars and spirit grocers, in Shankill Rd, 19 August 1872
Shankill Graveyard, the site of the old church, as it looked in 1915.
UDA mural in the Shankill (removed June 2006).
Ulster Volunteer Force
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The Ulster Volunteer Force is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group based in Northern Ireland. Formed in 1965, it first emerged in 1966. Its first leader was Gusty Spence, a former British Army soldie
Shankill Road
…visited by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester soon after the attack. During the Troubles, the Shankill was a centre of loyalist activity. The modern Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) had its genesis on the Shankill and its first attack occurred on the road on 7 May 1966 when a group of UVF men led by Gusty Spence petrol bombed…
A UVF flag in Glenarm, County Antrim
The UVF received large numbers of Czechoslovak Sa vz. 58 automatic rifles in the 1980s
Masked UVF Brigade Staff members at a press conference in October 1974. They are wearing part of the UVF uniform which earned them their nickname "Blacknecks"
A UVF publicity photo showing masked and armed UVF members on patrol in Belfast