Rewriting Crossmaglen: The Troubles and its legacy

Rewriting Crossmaglen: The Troubles and its legacy Long Kesh prison. Photo: Éanna Mackey

Just twenty minutes from Belfast city centre, the final remnants of the infamous Long Kesh internment camp still creak and sway in rusted decay, suspended somewhere between demolition and preservation. Of the notorious H-Blocks where the IRA hunger strikers died, only one remains. Guard towers still stand watch over a prison complex that otherwise lies…

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