2nd/11th Battalion, Ulster Defence Regiment

2nd/11th (County Armagh) Battalion, Ulster Defence Regiment
Regimental Insignia
Active	1991–1992
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Infantry battalion
Role	Internal Security
Size	750
Motto(s)	"Quis Separabit" (Latin) "Who Shall Separate Us?"
March	(Quick) Garryowen & Sprig of Shillelagh. (Slow) Oft in the Stilly Night
Commanders
Colonel Commandant	First: General Sir John Anderson GBE, KCB, DSO. Last: General Sir Charles Huxtable, KCB, CBE, DL
Colonel of the Regiment	Colonel Sir Dennis Faulkner CBE

Uniform, armament & equipment

A Testimony to Courage – the Regimental History of the Ulster Defence Regiment 1969 – 1992, John Potter, Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2001, ISBN 0-85052-819-4
The Ulster Defence Regiment: An Instrument of Peace?, Chris Ryder 1991 ISBN 0-413-64800-1
Lost Lives, David McKittrick, Mainstream, 2004, ISBN 184018504X

Elsewhere

The Troubles

Participants

Republican paramilitaries	Provisional IRA (timeline) Official IRA Irish National Liberation Army (timeline) Continuity IRA (timeline) Real IRA (timeline) IPLO

Security forces	United Kingdom British Army Royal Air Force Royal Navy Northern Ireland Ulster Defence Regiment/Royal Irish Regiment Royal Ulster Constabulary/Ulster Special Constabulary Republic of Ireland Garda Síochána Irish Army

Loyalist paramilitaries	Ulster Defence Association (timeline) Ulster Volunteer Force (timeline) Loyalist Volunteer Force Red Hand Commando Ulster Resistance Linked to: Some RUC and British Army members

Political parties

Unionist	Ulster Unionist Party Democratic Unionist Party Progressive Unionist Party UK Unionist Party Traditional Unionist Voice Ulster Vanguard Ulster Democratic Party

Nationalist	Social Democratic & Labour Party Sinn Féin Irish Republican Socialist Party Workers' Party of Ireland Republican Sinn Féin Irish Independence Party

Other	Alliance Party

Chronology

Northern Ireland civil rights movement begins (1967)
August riots and beginning of Operation Banner (1969)
Falls Curfew (1970)
Internment without trial begins with Operation Demetrius (1971)
Irish government enacts broadcasting restrictions (1971)
Bloody Sunday by British Army (1972)
Northern Ireland government dissolved; direct rule from London begins (1972)
Bloody Friday by IRA (1972)
Operation Motorman ends no-go areas (1972)
Sunningdale Agreement establishes power-sharing Assembly (1973)
Ulster Workers' Council strike brings down Agreement and power-sharing (1974)
Dublin and Monaghan bombings by UVF (1974)
Guildford and Birmingham pub bombings by IRA (1974)
Kingsmill massacre by IRA (1976)
Warrenpoint ambush by IRA (1979)
1981 Irish hunger strike; hunger striker Bobby Sands elected MP; Sinn Féin begins to move towards electoral politics (1981)

Other issues and topics

Segregation Peace lines/Interface areas Parades Flags Collusion The Disappeared Shoot-to-kill policy Diplock courts Special Category Status Five techniques Punishment shootings Murals The Troubles in popular culture List of books about the Troubles

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