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As his church grew throughout the fifties so did another creation of his, the Ulster Protestant Action group. The object of the group was the familiar one of keeping ‘Protestant and loyal workers in employment in times of deep depression in preference to their Catholic fellow workers’.42 The UPA also campaigned against the allocation of public housing to Catholics.
The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966–1995 and the Search for Peace
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