NEWRYABBEY tara of ireland, bagenal supposed castle

SAVE TARA
In his first broadcast for 2008, on 1 March Irish Poet Laureate and Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney said the plan to build a freeway through the Hill of Tara is a "ruthless desecration". Professor Heaney said that under British rule in Ireland, Tara appeared to have more protection than in today's Irish Republic.
    Heaney often refers to his "country of the mind". The Hill of Tara belongs to all people of Irish heritage. This is why Irish people cannot rest while Tara is being desecrated by speculators hell-bent of expanding Ireland's "industrial estate" with no regard for the people. They have forgotten the policy of Cultural Tourism, which launched the Celtic Tiger in the late 1980s - a policy directed toward promoting business through showcasing cultural heritage and supporting the arts.
    March is the month when the Irish government sends out diplomats to all corners of the world in honor of St. Patrick's Day. This year a large number of representatives from Meath, Trim and Navan Councils, surrounding the Hill of Tara, will travel abroad to promote flagging tourism, and, no doubt, to ease tensions caused by the international outcry over their continuing illegal desecration of Irish heritage at Tara.

This is a call to Irish people to go out of their way to greet these diplomats with the cry "save Tara!"
Let the words "save Tara!" resound!
Performing artists can call the words "save Tara" from the stage. Traditional Irish dances can place the words "Save Tara" on their sashes. It our cultural duty and our privilege to raise our voices to save Tara!


Learn more here:
Save Tara Campaign
http://www.savetara.com
Subscribe to the savetara.com yahoo group for ongoing updates.
Learn about the Anam Cara for Tara Arts Action campaign, and download the B&W handbill, here:
http://www.globalartscollective.org/acf/about.htm

Save TARA!
Maireid Sullivan
for the GlobalArtsCollective.org
and the Anam Cara for Tara arts action campaign
http://www.globalartscollective.org/acf/about.htm

EXCERPTS from Prof. Heaney's interview in the BBC News article:
"I think it literally desecrates an area - I mean the word means to de-sacralise and for centuries the Tara landscape and the Tara sites have been regarded as part of the sacred ground," he said.

"I was just thinking actually the Proclamation of the Irish Republic in 1916 summoned people in the name of the dead generations and called the nation, called the people in the name of the dead generations.

"If ever there was a place that deserved to be preserved in the name of the dead generations from pre-historic times up to historic times up to completely recently, it was Tara."

Read the extensive article Heaney hits out over 'tar on Tara', here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7272705.stm

And, read the shorter version of this interview in the Irish Times, here:
Heaney claims motorway near Tara desecrates sacred landscape
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/frontpage/2008/0301/1204240357176.html