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	RAF Long Kesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		RAF Long Kesh was a Royal Air Force station near Lisburn, Northern Ireland, from 1941 until 1971.
		Long Kesh was a target in Operation Green (Ireland), a second front to Operation Sealion which was the planned Nazi invasion of Britain.
		Long Kesh was to be destroyed by German paratroopers while Aldergrove, Nutts Corner and Langford Lodge were to be captured.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/RAF_Long_Kesh (178 words)

	Maze (HM Prison) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HM Prison Maze (known colloqually as The H Blocks, Long Kesh or The Maze) is a disused prison sited at the former RAF station at Long Kesh (it is still called Long Kesh by most Irish republicans) near Lisburn, nine miles outside Belfast, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
		Initially the internees were housed, with different paramilitary groups separated from each other, in Nissen huts at a disused airfield that became the Long Kesh Detention Centre.
		Prisoners convicted of "terrorist" offences after March 1, 1976 were housed in the eight new "H-Blocks" that had been constructed at Long Kesh, now officially HM Prison Maze.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Long_Kesh (1410 words)

	SAOIRSE32 :: The Burning of Long Kesh :: October :: 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		We cannot reflect on the 1974 burning of Long Kesh without first understanding the circumstances and conditions of the camp, its historic origins as a prison camp — first for internees in 1971 and later on for political status prisoners (special category) — and the overall political situation both inside and outside the prison.
		Long Kesh encapsulated the historical prison conflict from the early internment days, the political status phase, and to the H-Block Hunger Strikes of the early 1980s.
		Long Kesh was once an RAF airfield, 12 miles south of Belfast.
	saoirse32.blogsome.com /2005/10/15/the-burning-of-long-kesh (2524 words)

	Irish Abroad - Irish American News
		Long Kesh, the notorious prison camp where 10 Irish Republicans died on hunger strike and hundreds of others were interned without trail, is to be transformed into a state of the art sports stadium.
		Long Kesh, erected on the site of a British wartime military airport, was originally built to house the hundreds of Republicans and suspected Republicans interned without trial in the early 1970s.
		Long Kesh is one of three locations short-listed for the site of the stadium.
	www.irishabroad.com /news/irishinamerica/news/newstadiumkeshsite.asp (445 words)

	Newshound: Links to daily newspaper articles about Northern Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It stretched long, silent and gray, along the M-1 highway outside Belfast on that bright Irish morning in February.
		It had two names: Long Kesh, "The Long Swamp," as the Irish republican prisoners called it, and "The Maze," as the British government stubbornly renamed it.
		The long halls smelled sickeningly of disinfectant and our steps echoed as hollowly as the stomachs of the hunger strikers must have felt during their last days.
	www.nuzhound.com /articles/arts2002/long_kesh_cjmiller_May02.html (2016 words)

	Ireland's OWN: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		But this was an uncharacteristically sunny winter morning, even he was quiet as we turned off the road and passed the sign which read, "HMP The Maze." It had two names: Long Kesh, "The Long Swamp," as the Irish republican prisoners called it, and "The Maze," as the British government stubbornly renamed it.
		He'd spent his whole life staying out of Long Kesh, he joked feebly, his hands shaking a bit on the gearshift as we parked.
		She is also currently writing a book on the lives of ex-Republican prisoners who served time in Long Kesh and the Crumlin Road Jail.
	irelandsown.net /longkesh2.html (2015 words)

	What Led To the Hunger Strikes?
		McKee and the other prisoners were moved to Long Kesh compounds and were given allowed free association, visiting privileges, and the right to wear their own clothing.
		The IRA immediately moved to claim this propaganda victory and boast that the British government was recognizing the existence of the IRA as a legitimate entity.
		Any convicted terrorists were treated as ordinary criminals and were jailed in the newly-created prison facilities at Long Kesh, renamed Maze Prison, dubbed the H-blocks for their shape.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~kcomroe/causes.htm (1086 words)

	The Badger's Sett
		Long Kesh, the symbol of incarcerated Republicanism and the 1980/1981 hunger strikes was gradually emptied, and once all the prisoners were out, closed down.
		With Long Kesh closed, the centre of gravity of the prison system in the North has shifted to Maghaberry.
		While Long Kesh and the prison struggle that had gone on there had been very visible (be it from the M1 motorway, the many marches and rallies, most people from the Nationalist community knew at least one family with a member in prison, etc), what is striking about Maghaberry is its invisibility.
	radio.weblogs.com /0100730/2002/12/07.html (323 words)

	SAJA: Narayan D. Keshavan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Kesh was part of the US scene throughout the years I spent in New York and Washington.
		Kesh promised me many times that he would tell me why he had to to do certain things at that time and kept asking me to come to New York for a long session with Kerala cuisine to hear his version of the events of that time..Alas, that story will remain untold.
		Kesh will be missed every time I open my e mail, every time I see a good piece of writing on India-US relations, every time I hear of the US Congress or the India Caucus, every time I recall my years in the US.
	saja.org /keshavan.html (5396 words)

	INA/Irish Hunger Strikes Chapter 1
		Margaret Thatcher, for example, will be long forgotten or remembered as a historical footnote: one of the long list of unsuccessful, bitter tyrants.
		The course of the current stage of Irish history has also been profoundly affected by the sacrifice of the ten men who freely gave their young lives that the promise of a just and independent Irish Republic would prevail over the monstrous tyranny that had perverted their country's history for 800 years.
		It is also the story of the largely unknown others in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh and Armagh Jail who unselfishly suffered horrifying indignity and torture and who, alone and naked, took on the cruelty of Britain's psychotic resolve to annihilate all those that challenge its imperious hold.
	www.inac.org /irishhistory/hungerstrikes/chapters/1 (631 words)

	The Road to Peace - NORAID Online
		In 1971, it was called Long Kesh "Camp" because it held hundreds of Irish people interned without trial in dilapidated Nissan huts similar to those used by the Germans in the 1940's.
		The infamy of Long Kesh was brought to the world's attention in the period 1980-1981, when two historic hunger strikes were undertaken by Republican prisoners protesting against the British government's counterinsurgency strategy of criminalization of political prisoners.
		Having studied the document the Long Kesh and Armagh prisoners ended their 53-day hunger strike and looked forward to a more harmonious era within the North's prisons.
	www.inac.org /roadtopeace/strikes.html (1541 words)

	GBHP6
		The IRA prisoners in Long Kesh refused to wear prison uniforms or follow prison regulations, instead taking to wearing blankets, this formed the beginning of a dirty protest.
		A vigil outside Long Kesh was swiftly dispersed by the police.
		On the 17th October the inmates of Long Kesh began to be transfered to the mainland.
	www.btinternet.com /~chief.gnome/gordon6.htm (2770 words)

	British Archaeology 84, September/October 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Long Kesh/Maze was no spectator: its existence facilitated, instigated and enabled both communities and the state in their actions.
		Long Kesh/Maze is the most prominent physical manifestation of this devastating shift in Northern Irish society.
		The impact can be seen in the vast array of wall murals: the iconic aerial image of the H Blocks in republican areas, as telling of the media impact on the conflict as the conflict itself, and more commonly the walls, wire and watchtowers in loyalist areas, more reminiscent of former prisoner of war camps.
	www.britarch.ac.uk /ba/ba84/feat1.shtml (2120 words)

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		Long Kesh 1981 - Turkey 2001 Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit source - Press Agency Ozgurluk
		Derry Journal 29 September 2001 Derry hungerstriker's son relives tragedy Long Kesh 1981 - Turkey 2001 At the tender age of eight Michael Devine watched his father fade into death during the 1981 hungerstrike.
		One of the oldest forms of protest, the fast to the death is being followed through to the end, without any resolution in sight.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/2001mid/Long_Kesh_1981_-_Turkey_2001 (653 words)

	A Long History - Long Kesh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		For most working-class nationalists in the North, Long Kesh has been part of their lives for almost 30 years, since it was converted from an RAF base in 1971 into a 'temporary' camp for republican internees.
		As the last of its inmates, bar a few, are released today it will be a relief to see it close, to see a line drawn through a strife-torn past (even though there will still be political prisoners in Maghaberry as a result of dissident loyalist and republican activities).
		In 1976 Long Kesh was again transformed when the H-Blocks were opened and a British Labour government announced the end of political status.
	www.dannymorrison.com /articles/longkesh.html (874 words)

	Random House Academic Resources \| A Farther Shore by Gerry Adams
		This maelstrom of events-from the killings at Gibraltar through the long journey home of the remains, the Milltown Cemetery killings, and the subsequent killings of the two British soldiers-were among the most frightening, dramatic, tragic episodes of the recent past.
		When all the rest of the internees were back home with their friends and families, I and the rest of our motley crew were transported back to Long Kesh, all trussed up like individually wrapped turkeys in the tiny claustrophobic compartments of a heavily armored paddy wagon.
		Following his release from Long Kesh, Kevin and his wife and family lived in Clonard, also home to the monastery where the Redemptorist Order was based in West Belfast.
	www.randomhouse.com /acmart/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375760129&view=excerpt (2380 words)

	Long Kesh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Long Kesh was among the world's most infamous prisions.
		Long Kesh has shown to everyone the system must be broke.
		No more the "Special Powers Act" those fiends will invoke, And Long Kesh will be the yewstone, on which the systems broke.
	www.jdcjr.us /Songs/Long_Kesh.html (357 words)

	frontline: the ira & sinn fein: readings: gerry adams' "cape 11" \| PBS
		He was arrested again, without charges or trial, in 1973, and held in Britain's Long Kesh prison until 1977.
		During his time at Long Kesh, he was caught and convicted for trying to escape, and was moved from an area holding internees to "Cage 11," cells reserved for prisoners serving actual sentences.
		During this time, Long Kesh became known as the "University of Terrorism" because the Republican inmates used their time there to train new young provisional soldiers and to reflect and plan for the movement's future.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ira/readings/adams.html (228 words)

	As It Was 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The houses are long gone, the coal quays are gone and more importantly the canal has gone, replaced by the M 1 motorway.
		THE BASIN Near Kesh Bridge was the 'Basin', a large circular area of water three times the width of the canal, which was the authorised spot for barges to change direction or to stop and wait to allow oncoming barges to pass.
		The company and the fun we had are what memories are made of If a girl was getting married she was put into the weavers' truck covered in french chalk and pushed around the mill.
	www.lisburn.com /books/as-it-was/as-it-was-1.html (13090 words)

	Parip/Practice as Research in Performance
		Long Kesh (later renamed the Maze) Prison was a microcosm of the political conflict that raged for over thirty years in the north of Ireland.
		The context for these recordings is the peace process that began with the ceasefires of 1994 and was cemented by the Irish and British governments with the Belfast Agreement of 1998.
		As a result of both these initiatives political prisoners were released and the Long Kesh/Maze prison closed down.
	www.bris.ac.uk /parip/ab_cahal.htm (1165 words)

	Real Change
		Their first demonstration of rebellion was going “on the blanket” — growing their hair long and exchanging prison garb for a blanket in defiance of prison authorities.
		When no changes were made, several men who were held in the Long Kesh prison in Belfast decided to go on a hunger strike in 1980.
		She had two brothers who were in Long Kesh at the time, and lived across the street from the wife of one of the hunger strikers.
	www.realchangenews.org /2006/2006_05_03/TenofHeart.html (650 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Maze prison
		Long Kesh internment camp became the scene of protests
		The prisoners at Long Kesh were allowed free association, extra visits, food parcels and could wear their own clothes.
		Both republican and loyalist paramilitaries began to organise compounds along prisoner-of-war lines with a command structure and "a duty to escape".
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/in_depth/northern_ireland/2000/maze_prison/1972.stm (146 words)

	Prisoners Writings
		In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long Kesh prison in Belfast.
		During that time he was at centre of protest and struggle against the British government's attempts to criminalise republicanism and destroy commitment to the republican ideal.
		He died, in prison, on 5 May 1981, on the sixty-sixth day of his hunger strike at Long Kesh Prison, outside Belfast.
	www.sinnfeinbookshop.com /en-us/dept_10.html (649 words)

	Faul and Murray (1974) The flames of Long Kesh, 15-16 October, 1974 ; [and], The murder of Hugh Gerard Coney, internee, ...
		Faul and Murray (1974) The flames of Long Kesh, 15-16 October, 1974 ; [and], The murder of Hugh Gerard Coney, internee, 6 November 1974
		The flames of Long Kesh, 15-16 October, 1974 ; [and], The murder of Hugh Gerard Coney, internee, 6 November 1974
		Long Kesh (Prison); Concentration camps; Political prisoners; Ireland; Lisburn; Coney, Hugh Gerard
	www.getcited.org /?PUB=101928854&showStat=Ratings (121 words)

	HUNGER STRIKE COMMEMORATIVE WEB PROJECT
		Long Kesh, known as the Maze to most of the world and a concentration camp to those familiar with its inner-workings, is just outside of Belfast.
		It was this first stay in Long Kesh where Sands became increasingly more familiar with the politics, language, culture and history of the Irish.
		Of more crucial importance to the republican prisoners inside Long Kesh was the necessity of maintaining a steady stream of communication with the outside world and the movement's leadership.
	larkspirit.com /hungerstrikes/oconnpaper.html (4606 words)

	Man Arrested For Not Filling Out Form Properly
		Here's how an innocuous man, once caught up in the violent politics of a place where violence and politics were long indistinguishable, ended up in jail on his way to church.
		Three years missing from his life, Black left Long Kesh prison and the IRA simultaneously and got on with the life that this week was interrupted at the foot of the boarding ramp in Philadelphia.
		His wife wanted to leave some money for her husband to pick up the car at the airport when he was sent home.
	www.prisonplanet.tv /articles/july2004/110704manarrested.htm (710 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Melanie McFadyean on the legacy of the hunger strikes in Northern ...
		A country whose jail population had been less than a thousand suddenly found its numbers swelling exponentially and Long Kesh, a former RAF base, was opened as a jail in 1971.
		Three months later, on March 1 1981, Bobby Sands, OC of the IRA in Long Kesh, began the second hunger strike; the blanket protest was called off the day after, to avoid detracting attention from him.
		A Long Kesh mission statement published just before it closed reads: "We will operate a secure, safe and humane regime which recognises the individual and the organisations to which he or she claims allegiance." If that had been the mission in 1976, many lives would have been saved.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /northernirelandassembly/story/0,,1721872,00.html (3819 words)

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