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However, right-wing Unionists, ever eager to ignore the writing on the wall, pressed ahead as though Bloody Sunday had not occurred. Just over a week after the killings William Craig founded the Ulster Vanguard movement. The object of the movement was to unite the rightist elements of Unionism in a programme of general discontent at the lack of progress on two fronts: the security front and what was seen as the erosion of the constitutional position.
The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966–1995 and the Search for Peace
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