Putting a price on culture

An Irish round-up on the political value of culture." The value of our culture is incalculable, so the Government should think twice before taking the axe to our biggest asset, argues poet and member of Aosdána PETER SIRR –Tuesday, August 11, 2009– ON ST PATRICK’S DAY...

Cry 'Save Tara' on St Patrick's Day

My latest Tara post has been published in two important Irish papers, the Independent.ie newspaper, in Ireland and the IrishVoice.com in New York. ...and a front page headline interview was published in the IrishEcho.com.au - in Australia."Tuesday March 04 2008–Ireland's...

TARA: Heaney hits out over 'tar on Tara'

In his first broadcast for 2008, on 1 March Irish Poet Laureate Seamus Heaney said the plan to build a freeway through the Hill of Tara is a "ruthless desecration".Heaney often refers to his "country of the...

TARA: Heaney claims motorway near Tara desecrates sacred landscape

The destruction of the Hill of Tara continues, with illegal Irish government collusion. Learn more about this here: http://www.globalartscollective.org/acf/about.htm"Heaney claims motorway near Tara desecrates sacred landscapePOET AND Nobel laureate Séamus Heaney has...

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