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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT
- DEADLINE 30 JAN 2008
Please make a submission to the Dept of the Environment, calling for the Hill of Tara to be placed on the UNESCO Tentative List, and for the M3 motorway to be re-routed.
http://www.environ.ie/en/Heritage/WorldHeritage/LatestNewsonWorldHeritage/MainBody,18980,en.htm
worldheritagetentativelist@environ.ie
http://www.tarawatch.org/p=780
TARAWATCH LINKS:
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- TaraWatch home page:
http://www.tarawatch.org
CONTACT info@tarawatch.org
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PARTIES ADDRESSED IN PETITION: WAC6 - Sixth World Archaeological Congress, University College Dublin, 28 June - 4 July 2008 http://www.worldarchaeologicalcongress.org/site/wac6.php UNESCO - World Heritage Centre http://whc.unesco.org/ ICOMOS International http://www.icomos.org ICOMOS Ireland http://www.icomos.ie DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN PETITION: Statements by Minister for the Environment, John Gormley about UNESCO listing for Tara, 11/04/08 http://www.environ.ie/en/Heritage/Archaeology-NationalMonumentsService/News/MainBody,17071,en.htm UN Report on Ireland's Implementation of the World Heritage Convention http://whc.unesco.org/archive/periodicreporting/EUR/cycle01/section1/ie-summary-en.pdf World Monuments Fund 100 Most Endangered Sites List 2008 - Tara Hill entry: http://wmf.org/watch2008/watch.phpid=S8351 TARA POSITION STATEMENTS BY OTHER BODIES: Archaeological Institute of America - Tara statement and news http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.phppage=10245 Heritage Council Statement on Tara http://www.hilloftara.info/docs/Heritage%20Council%20Opinion%20M3%202005.doc National Roads Authority - M3 web site: http://www.m3motorway.ie Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, letter to Irish Times, http://www.nuigalway.ie/archaeology/Tara_RSAI_Irish_Times_5-5-05.html Sacred Sites International - 2005 Most Endangered Sites - Tara http://www.sacred-sites.org/preservation/endangered_most.html INTERNATIONAL PRESS STORIES Archaeology Magazine - 'Road to Ruin', 2 July 2007 http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/tara/ Archaeology Magazine - Lismullin national monument - the Tara site voted in Top Ten Discoveries of 2007 http://www.archaeology.org/0801/topten/tara.html Gaurdian - Heaney hits at 'desecration' of sacred Tara http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/mar/02/northernireland.tara Sunday Times - 'Theron brushes up on Hill of Tara' http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article486885.ece National Geographic News: Ancient Tomb Art Found in Path of Irish Highway http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080114-tara-ireland.html New York Times - 'Erin go Faster' Op-ed by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/25/opinion/25muldoon.html New York Times - 'A Road Runs Through Tara; by Booker prize-winning author Colm Toibin http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/25/opinion/25toibin.htmlpartner=rssnyt&emc=rss New York Times - Next Exit: Food, Gas and the Burial Place of Irish Kings http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/31/international/europe/31tara.html Washington Post - In Ireland, Commuters vs. Kings http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27671-2005Jan21.html RTE NEWS VIDEO Tara called 'endangered heritage site' http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0606/tara.html Protestors play harps outside D�il http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0922/tara.html Summer Solstice celebrations on Hill of Tara http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0621/solstice.html OTHER VIDEO TaraWatch Interview with Professor George Eogan, Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at University Coleege Dubln - shot at Rath Lugh, amidst demolition 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watchv=dk_9zkgIcxo TaraWatch Interview with Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Myers, on the Hill of Tara, during the making of a human harp, with over 2,000 people, Jan 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watchv=fzaMBJVbmr4 AUDIO BBC Documentary 'Tar on Tara' interview with Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, who hits out over the M3, 1 March 2008: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7272705.stm BOOKS Tara. An Archaeological survey by Conor Newman http://books.google.co.uk/booksid=nUWFAAAAIAAJ&q=conor+newman+tara&dq=conor+newman+tara&pgis=1 The Kingship and Landscape of Tara Edel Bhreathnach, editor http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/product.phpintProductID=615 Tara and the Ark of the Covenant by Mair�ad Carew http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/38189/Location/Oxbow Irish Kings and High Kings by Francis John Byrne http://books.google.co.uk/booksid=WxqGGAAACAAJ&dq=francis+byrne+kings+high
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