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- I'm Tara well actually I'm Teamhair but everybody calls me Tara now. I've been here in Meath with my best buddy the hill of Skryne and the Gabhra Valley running between us since the beginning of time. But Irish people have decided that it would be a good idea to build a four-lane, twice-tolled motorway with a huge interchange in our Valley.
I NEED YOUR HELP NOW! Ways will be seen below.
I've been sacred to Ireland for 5,000 years. Kings were inaugurated, people made sacrifices and really important people were buried here. People did not live on me, they lived in the Valley in the shadow of their sacred mountain - me.
But the National Roads Authority, Meath County Council and the Irish Government want to wreck my Valley and build a huge interchange where I meet the Valley. People will want to build houses, warehouses, filling stations and shops and soon there will be no Gabhra Valley and the houses will creep up my green slopes.
Tourist will be told - that was where I was.
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Since the beginning and until the end of time.
- Music
- Any music that does not hurt me.
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- Gone with the Wind - set in Tara.
Films about protest - Sports
- Hurling - Cu Chulainn played it.
- Scared Of
- The National Roads Authority, Meath County Council, Bertie Ahern, Dick Roche, Martin Cullen, Noel Dempsey - they want to kill me
- Happiest When
- Left alone in peace for people to enjoy my beauty, the view and my beloved Skryne across my Valley
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Poets and musicians at Tara
Paul Muldoon, originally from Ireland but now a professor in Princeton, the Pulitzer prize winning poet will read his poetry on Tara on 24th August at 3.30pm. This is the first day of heritage week and he will be joined by Laoise Kelly (harper) and by Susan McKeown, musician and singer from Dublin but now living in New York and others.
All welcome.
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Bodies required for body art event/ harpists at th Dail
The Campaign to Save Tara would like to officially announce that John Quigley, an internationally renowned aerial artist, as well as Stuart Townsend will be creating a piece of human aerial art on the Hill of Tara on Sunday 23rd September.
People wanted to help create an aerial art event at Tara on that day - meeting at 3pm in the car park.
Wear white Bring rain gear to sit on.
Join us in creating a striking human aerial image to tell the world about the destruction of the Gabhra Valley.
Photo will be created by internationally renowned aerial artist John Quigley.
We need between 500-1000 people to spell out the words SAVE TARA VALLEY and the outline of a harp on the hill.
To see John Quigley's work visit his website: http://www.spectralq.com/
To give you some background - the first suggestion of this event arose in March of this year when Stuart approached me. Then John Quigley and himself came back with a firmer suggestion in August.
The original date was to be the 22nd Sept but that clashed with the Harpists event that is taking shape at present and spreading to America.
We tried to change the date to 29th Sept but there were flight
complications for those involved.
A number of phone conversations took place between the co-ordinator of CST and John Quigley over the past week. Then we had a phone conferencing call last night with Stuart John and myself and filled the co-ordinator in on the result.
We had a meeting tonight to iron out the details.
We will need about 30 volunteers to help shape the people into letters as well.
A press release will go out in the next few days.
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The Campaign to Save Tara is pleased to help the organisers by issuing a press release on the following events. Contacts are within the email.
Muireann Ní Bhrolcháin
087-9249510
http://www.savetara.com
On Saturday 22nd September 2007 at 3 p.m. the harpers of Ireland will gather at Dáil Éireann to demonstrate publicly the strength of their opposition to the destruction of historic cultural sites at the Tara/Skryne Valley as a result of the current route of the M3 motorway. The harpers will assemble with their harps along Kildare Street, and will submit a petition to Minister John Gormley insisting he implement alternatives to the continued destruction which is taking place.
Ireland is unique in having a musical instrument, the harp, as its national emblem. This indicates the primacy of the harp in Irish culture. The sites currently under threat are inextricably linked with the harping and bardic traditions for more than 2,500 years.
Tara was the gathering place for thousands of harpers to 142 kings, and the harp was an integral part of the ancient Irish parliament at Tara. The harp has been used in the coat of arms of Ireland since 1270 and is the symbol of the Irish State today. It is found in the seals of the President, Taoiseach, Tánaiste, Government Ministers, on State currency and is the insignia of the Irish Law Courts.
It is an outrage that the Irish people should be forced to choose between infrastructure and heritage. As a country we are embarrassed internationally by profit-driven, shortsighted planning as exemplified by the fact that World Monument Fund has placed Tara on its list of 100 most endangered sites worldwide.
Many can rightly point out that it would be an archaeological loss, and a historical one. It is also a spiritual loss, since even before the conversion by St Patrick of Ireland’s High Kings it was a place where the Irish sought to express their spirituality. And significantly for us as a nation, it was the place of birth of Christianity in Ireland. The gathering of harpers says that it is also a musical and cultural loss and asserts that the sound of Tara’s harp will not be drowned by traffic jams and the cash registers of toll plazas.
Further information from www.myspace.com/TaraHarpers
Laoise Kelly Tel. 086 2603405 or laoise.kelly@face.ie
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EU petitions committee visit Tara
Another extraordinary day!
Conor Newman appointed to a new committee set up by the new Minister John Gormley on the henge at Lismullin.
They had their first meeting today - and the the EU petitions committee visited Tara and Conor was there to meet them again.
For a full report see Indymedia and the new photobucket.
Here they are:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/83209
http://s168.photobucket.com/albums/u...
But don't forget - you are needed to protest. People came over for the Solstice but they have gone home again now. Numbers are needed. Ring the Vigil number for information 086-17585572 Comments 879 days
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Christine F48 weeks agoHello all - a great link regarding Tara -
http://archaeologyfacts.wordpress.co...
and (excerpts from) a very rare and great book - what is there is really worth the read on this subject -
The Bible, An Irish Book, by Conor MacDari........................
http
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OmUo1vB9IC&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=iri
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&ots=PqvCWHFpkS&sig=x0Ae5X0Zw7WEmm
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(any works by Gerald Massey are great for researching Tara also) -
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Save Tara52 weeks ago
It is worth visiting to see how close the huge interchange is to the TOP of the hill.
Here is a link to aerial photographs taken in September by a drone plane. The ones of Blundelstown are the closest to the top of the Hill. The road is actually across the bottom of the slope of the hill. The destroyed Valley and the sites are part of Tara's extended landscape. Tara is not just the hill, but the Government, Meath County Council and the National Roads Authority would like us to think so.
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Joe Taaffe55 weeks agoas seamus heaney once said on bbc radio 4
The tail of the celtic tiger has whipped the strings off the Irish harp
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destroy tara is to forget who we were and who we are and where were going -
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Deman Sixthynine
IT WAS SAID THAT BAD LUCK WOULD FOLLOW IF THE BRAIN DEAD SUPER GOVERMENT WE HAVE WAS TO GO NEAR TARA......... TA DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...PACK OFF SPINELESS YES MEN....TARA IS A MAGICAL PLACE.
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Shamrock Promotions70 weeks ago
Hi
Just to let you know,
CIARAN MURPHY – THE VERBAL HAND GRENADE EP CD - OUT NOW
BRAND NEW 7 TRACK EP FROM GIFTED SINGER-SONGWRITER CIARAN MURPHY
Ciaran Murphy is a political singer songwriter based in Belfast
Available Exclusively At
www.shamrocksuperstore.net
www.myspace.com/shamrocksuperstore
Listen To Samples At
www.myspace.com/ciaranabc
Thanks
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Aaron Kelly72 weeks agoI have an album dedicated to saving tara. We should be friends!!!
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Séamas Ó Sionnaigh72 weeks agoSave Teamhair / Tara from the those who want us to forget who we are as a people - and rewrite our history and heritage!
We are Irish / Gaels / Celts, and Tara is to us what Jerusalem is to Jews or Christians, Mecca to Muslims, the Golden Temple to the Sikhs or the Forbidden City to the Chinese.
It is part of what identifies us as a people apart, and is bound up with our language, culture and history.
Don't let the modern day apologists for being Irish, people who are secretly ashamed of being Irish and Gaelic and want nothing more than for all of us to become good, identikit, Anglo-Saxon Europeans to win...!
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74 weeks ago
Sam B
Happy Summer Solstice everyone! It's a pity it doesn't feel like Midsummer here today with all this rain but I'm sure that doesn't stop Pagans celebrating =)
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Shane Halpin75 weeks agoSAVE TARA FROM THE SELL OUTS!!
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Connolly Youth Movement77 weeks agoRally for a NO Vote
Under the slogans of:
*Defend Worker & Migrant Rights!
*Against EU Militarisation!
*Resist Privatisation!
2pm - Saturday 7th of June
At the EU Offices on Dawson St.
All Leftist and Progressive Groups Welcome!
Jointly organised by a coalition of youth activists from the Connolly Youth Movement, Ogra Shinn Féin and other young Socialists.
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78 weeks ago
Elaine
"UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights of Indigenous Peoples
As adopted by the General Assembly on 13th September 2007.
Includes :
Article 7.2 "Indigenous peoples have the collective right to live in freedom, peace and security as distinct peoples"
Article 8.1 "Indigenous peoples and individuals have the right not to be subjected to forced assimilation or destruction of their culture." -
Meath Sinn Fein80 weeks agoEveryone add me!
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Mary Mc Donagh83 weeks agodid the security men really wear bally clavas and go in during the night and beat use up???...
Hi all,
Save Tara 0 ReplysAs some of you may know, there is a direct action camp at Rath Lugh - this is line of protest now. There is a tunnel under the route of the M3 at this point.
Troops need help, there are a number of students and Transition Year people up there now - please help them as they need more ...
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Michael Martin 0 Replyshttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/hillof... .