‘Belfast’ is an alternative rock band based in Bergamo, Italy, and among the songs on their new CD is one called ‘Long Kesh’. Information about the band and this song (and a live YouTube performance) can be found here. Paolo Ghidini of the band, writing about the destruction of the H-Blocks, says in a message to the Bobby Sands Trust: “We are essentially pacifist, and we don’t have any political approach to the history, but we modestly tried to express our feeling about it with a song, named ‘Long Kesh’… How sad was seeing the maze destroyed during our last trip in Ulster… I think that in another country, it would become an historic museum.”
BOBBY SANDS TRUST
The Bobby Sands Trust was established to publish, promote and keep in print the extraordinary writings of Bobby Sands, who from prison isolation became an international figure in 1981, and who to this day continues to inspire Irish republicans in their pursuit of freedom from British rule.