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Petition Author - Vincent Salafia
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PARTIES ADDRESSED IN PETITION:
WAC6 - Sixth World Archaeological Congress, University College Dublin, 28 June - 4 July 2008
UNESCO - World Heritage Centre
ICOMOS International
ICOMOS Ireland
DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN PETITION:
Statements by Minister for the Environment, John Gormley about UNESCO listing for Tara, 11/04/08
UN Report on Ireland's Implementation of the World Heritage Convention
World Monuments Fund 100 Most Endangered Sites List 2008 - Tara Hill entry
TARA POSITION STATEMENTS BY OTHER BODIES:
Archaeological Institute of America - Tara statement and news
Heritage Council Statement on Tara
Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, letter to Irish Times
Sacred Sites International - 2005 Most Endangered Sites - Tara
INTERNATIONAL PRESS STORIES
Archaeology Magazine - 'Road to Ruin', 2 July 2007
Archaeology Magazine - Lismullin national monument - the Tara site voted in Top Ten Discoveries of 2007
Gaurdian - Heaney hits at 'desecration' of sacred Tara
Sunday Times - 'Theron brushes up on Hill of Tara'
National Geographic News: Ancient Tomb Art Found in Path of Irish Highway
New York Times - 'Erin go Faster' Op-ed by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon
New York Times - 'A Road Runs Through Tara; by Booker prize-winning author Colm Toibin
New York Times - Next Exit: Food, Gas and the Burial Place of Irish Kings
Washington Post - In Ireland, Commuters vs. Kings
RTE NEWS VIDEO
Tara called 'endangered heritage site'
Protesters play harps outside D�il
Summer Solstice celebrations on Hill of Tara
OTHER VIDEO
TaraWatch Interview with Professor George Eogan, Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at University Coleege Dubln - shot at Rath Lugh, amidst demolition 2008
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
AUDIO
BBC Documentary 'Tar on Tara' interview with Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, who hits out over the M3, 1 March 2008
BOOKS
Tara. An Archaeological survey
by Conor Newman
The Kingship and Landscape of Tara
Edel Bhreathnach, editor
Tara and the Ark of the Covenant
by Mair�ad Carew
Irish Kings and High Kings
by Francis John Byrne
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