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Billy Spence : ウィキペディア英語版 | Billy Spence Billy Spence (died 1980) was a loyalist activist in Northern Ireland. A native of the Shankill Road area of Belfast, Spence was a leading figure with both Ulster Protestant Action and the Ulster Volunteer Force. ==Early life== Born in Belfast, Spence was the older brother of Gusty, later to become an even more prominent loyalist. He was the son of William Edward Spence, who was born in Whitehaven but raised in Belfast, and Isabella Hayes.〔Roy Garland, ''Gusty Spence'', Blackstaff Press, 2001, p. 6〕 In 1945, Billy Spence was critical of his younger brother's invitation to Paddy Devlin to play for the Old Lodge soccer team.〔Garland, ''Gusty Spence'', p.22〕 In keeping with the military tradition of the family, Spence served with the Royal Navy as a young man.〔Garland, ''Gusty Spence'', p. 25〕He then worked in the Belfast Corporation's transport department as a timekeeper.〔Ed Moloney and Andrew Pollak, ''Paisley'', p.79〕 In this role he served as a member of the Transport and General Workers' Union.〔Garland, ''Gusty Spence'', p. 30〕 He flirted with socialism and was sometimes critical of the refusal of the Ulster Unionist Party to run working class candidates in deprived areas.〔Garland, ''Gusty Spence'', p. 8〕
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