(1) There were vicious sectarian elements to the loyalist riots.(2) Statements that denounce loyalist violence or comment on its increase are frequent.(3) In the past the mind of loyalist paramilitarism was just another factor in the wider political equation.(4) The case has been dogged by claims of British collusion with loyalist gunmen.(5) Only one loyalist had been interned and that was on a separate charge.(6) On that day he did not flinch from the reality of loyalist violence.(7) Meanwhile, another man was shot and wounded in Belfast as the loyalist feud continues.(8) Rebels hold the north and loyalist forces the south of what was considered a haven of peace and prosperity until a 1999 coup.(9) And he is scathing in his criticism of current manifestations of loyalist paramilitarism.(10) In 1783, the arrival of Loyalists after the American War of Independence almost tripled the English-speaking population.(11) Read on, for a compilation of rambling late night thoughts, mainly about unionism and loyalism but with a fair bit on republicanism.(12) In recent years there has been much emphasis on the ways that it reinforced a variety of identities: church and king loyalism , patriotic Britishness, male authoritarianism.(13) For a long time journalists vaguely lumped together Nationalists, Republicans and the Irish State on one side of the equation, and the British States with Unionists and Loyalists on the other side of the equation.(14) Cornwallis hoped that many Loyalists would rally to the British cause, but in the event this support proved unreliable.(15) Police were investigating unconfirmed reports of shots being fired as loyalists and nationalists confronted each other in Ardoyne.(16) The Ardoyne area remained tense last night as nationalists and loyalists braced themselves for more clashes following two nights of trouble.
