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Red hand may refer to:

People

  • Owain Lawgoch (Eng translation: Owain of the Red Hand), the title given to Owain ap Thomas ap Rhodri, a Welsh soldier who led a Free Company fighting for the French against the English in the Hundred Years' War and a claimant to the title of Prince of Gwynedd and of Wales

Arts, entertainment, and media

Organizations

  • La Main Rouge (English translation: The Red Hand), an armed group operating in French North Africa in the 1950s
  • Red Hand Commando, a small Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, which is closely linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)
  • Red Hand Defenders (RHD), an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland

Other uses

  • Red Hand Day or International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers, February 12 each year, is an annual commemoration day on which pleas are made to political leaders and events are staged around the world to draw attention to the fates of child soldiers
  • Red Hand of Ulster, an Irish symbol used in heraldry to denote the Irish province of Ulster

See also

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