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Ulster Volunteers
The
Ulster Volunteers
were a
unionist
militia founded in 1912 to block
domestic self-government
(or
Home Rule
) for
Ireland
, which was then part of the
United Kingdom
. The Ulster Volunteers were based in the northern
province
of
Ulster
. Many
Ulster Protestants
feared being governed by a
Catholic
-dominated parliament in
Dublin
and losing their local supremacy and strong links with
Britain
. In 1913, the militias were organised into the
Ulster Volunteer Force
(
UVF
) and vowed to resist any attempts by the British Government to 'impose' Home Rule on Ulster. Later that year,
Irish nationalists
formed a rival militia, the
Irish Volunteers
, to safeguard Home Rule. In April 1914, the UVF
smuggled 25,000 rifles
into Ulster. The
Home Rule Crisis
was halted by the outbreak of
World War I
in August 1914. Many UVF members enlisted with the
British Army
's
36th (Ulster) Division
and went to fight on the
Western Front
.
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