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Article: History finally closes its gates.(Features)
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- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- July 27, 2000
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IT'S undoubtedly our most famous building. For 25 years, pictures of the H-Blocks have regularly appeared on television screens and in newspapers across the world. Parliament Buildings, Stormont, might be a million times more beautiful, but it's Long Kesh - or the Maze as the authorities attempted with a mixed degree of success to rename it - which captured international attention.
Millions of people across the globe - some with an avid interest in politics, others with none - know about it. It ranks up there with Alcatraz and Sing Sing. So it is absolutely ...