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The 1998 Belfast Agreement promised to release citizens of Northern Ireland from the grip of paramilitarism. However, almost a decade later, Loyalist paramilitaries were still on the battlefield. After the Peace examines the delayed business of Loyalist demilitarization and explains why it included more fits than starts in the decade since formal peace and how Loyalist paramilitary recalcitrance has affected everyday Loyalists.Drawing on interviews with current and former Loyalist paramilitary men, community workers, and government officials, Carolyn Gallaher charts the trenchant divisions that emerged during the run-up to peace and thwart demilitarization today. After the Peace demonstrates that some Loyalist paramilitary men want to rebuild their communities and join the political process. They pledge a break with violence and the criminality that sustained their struggle. Others vow not to surrender and refuse to set aside their guns. These units operate under a Loyalist banner but increasingly resemble criminal fiefdoms. In the wake of this internecine power struggle, demilitarization has all but stalled.Gallaher documents the battle for the heart of Loyalism in varied settings, from the attempt to define Ulster Scots as a language to deadly feuds between UVF, UDA, and LVF contingents. After the Peace brings the story of Loyalist paramilitaries up to date and sheds light on the residual violence that persists in the post-accord era.

Protestants --- Political violence --- Paramilitary forces --- Christians --- Forces, Paramilitary --- Paramilitaries --- Armed Forces --- Military art and science --- Political activity --- Ulster Volunteer Force. --- Ulster Defence Association. --- Loyalist Volunteer Force. --- LVF --- UDA --- UVF --- U.V.F. --- Northern Ireland --- Politics and government --- Militias (Paramilitary forces) --- Private militias

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The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) was established in January 1913, as a militant expression of Ulster Unionist opposition to the Third Home Rule Bill. Academic historians have tended to overlook Ulster Loyalism. This book provides the first comprehensive study of the UVF in this period, considering in detail the composition of the officer corps, the marked regional recruiting differences, the ideologies involved, the arming and equipping of the UVF and the contingency plans made by UVF Headquarters in the event of Home Rule being imposed on Ulster. Using previously neglected sources, it demonstrates that the UVF was better armed and less well-trained, with the involvement of fewer British army officers than previous historians have allowed, and suggests that the UVF was quite capable of seizing control of Ulster and installing the Ulster Provisional Government in the event of Home Rule being implemented in 1914.This book will be essential reading for military and Irish historians and their students, and will interest any general reader interested in modern paramilitary forces.

Ulster Volunteer Force (1913-1920) --- Ireland --- Politics and government --- History --- Andrew Bonar Law. --- British public opinion. --- Irish revolutionary period. --- Liberal government. --- Nationalist Ireland. --- Orange Order. --- Sir Edward Carson. --- Third Home Rule crisis. --- UVF equipment. --- Ulster Special Constabulary. --- Ulster Unionist militancy. --- Ulster Volunteer Force. --- Unionist Clubs. --- Unionist propaganda. --- armed Unionism. --- military efficiency units. --- neo-feudalism. --- political ideology. --- standard military hierarchy.