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The Celtic Cross that will unveiled on Saturday
A Celtic cross remembering the legacy of Long Kesh will be unveiled in Derry this weekend.
The cross, which is one of four to be erected across the north, will be officially unveiled on Saturday, February 2 at 1.00pm at Free Derry Corner.
Former republican prison Antoin O'Hara said: "The crosses are to highlight the legacy of Long Kesh, both the cages and the H-Blocks and the suffering that republican prisoners had to endure and overcame.
"We'll be remembering Hugh Coney, who was murdered whilst trying to escape in November 1974 and Jim Moyne who died from neglect whilst interned in January 1975. Also the 10 hunger strikers whose sacrifice broke the criminalisation policy of successive British governments.
"Also the burning of Long Kesh in October 1974 when the British used prisoners as ginny pigs when they dropped CS gas on us and the chemicals they used during the blanket protest. Many former prisoners have died young because of those chemicals."
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