The Hill of Tara
Tara is, because of its associations, probably the most consecrated spot in Ireland, and its destruction will leave many bitter memories behind it."
W. B. Yeats, et al., in a letter of protest to The Times, 27th June 1902, when Tara was last threatened.

The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls

The harp that once through Tara's halls
The soul of music shed,
Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls
As if that soul were fled.
So sleeps the pride of former days,
So glory's thrill is o'er,
And hearts that once beat high for praise
Now feel that pulse no more!

No more to chiefs and ladies bright
The harp of Tara swells;
The chord alone that breaks at night
Its tale of ruin tells.
Thus Freedom now so seldom wakes,
The only throb she gives
Is when some heart indignant breaks,
To show that still she lives.
Thomas Moore
(1779-1852)

IRELAND'S SHAME: A SUPERHIGHWAY ACROSS THE HILL OF TARA
By T.S. Kerrigan
'What's next, a shopping center connecting the Lakes of Killarney? A strip mall in Dingle? Unprincipled people seem to be in charge of Ireland's cultural future... .' Click here to see the full article.

Download or listen to an MP3 of the traditional pastoral song about the Skryne Valley, near the hill of Tara, "The Verdant Braes of Skryne".

Download or listen to an MP3 of the traditional song "Rocks of Bawn".

It's looked like this for 7000 years ...

Unless we do something...NOW!

...It will look like this! ...for ... EVER!


We call on the Irish Government to review their decision to build the M3 freeway through the Hill of Tara/Skryne Vallley. There are other options available. These include: improving the existing N3; re-opening the Navan-Dublin railway line; or moving the M3 away from this delicate archaeological landscape.

“…an act of cultural vandalism as flagrant as ripping a knife through a Rembrandt painting” Professor Dennis Harding, Department of Archaeology, Edinburgh University

Harding’s powerful metaphor comes closest to expressing the horror felt by many at the prospect of Tara being brutally ‘excavated’ by machine, and then straddled with a four-lane toll road and a fifty-acre interchange....

Join the growing world-wide grass-roots movement to protect Tara.

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