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Saving Cú Chulainn from turning in his grave, literally
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Sunday August 14, 2005 13:40 by Proinsias Mac Fhearghusa 0863213755
Tara neglected whilst sites such as the Céide Fields and Brú na Boinne have flourished 'That the scene of the final battle of Na Fianna, and the burial site of Cú Chulainn's remains is being dug up to facilitate a reroutable motorway is something which reflects badly on our respect for our origins.' I live a few short miles from the M3 site in the Tara Valley, and have been watching the works there on an almost daily basis since they began a number of months ago when the first excavator arrived to clear topsoil. That the scene of the final battle of Na Fianna, and the burial site of Cú Chulainn's remains is being dug up to facilitate a reroutable motorway is something which reflects badly on our respect for our origins. |
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The British were perplexed at what to do regarding the 'Monster Meetings' - were they a 'safety valve' at which the 'agitators/rebels' could let off steam in a more-or-less harmless fashion, or were they a possible recruiting exercise at which the more militant element could 'plot and plan'?
However, after the 15th August 1843, the Brits decided to take action; for it was on that date that between 800,000 and one million people gathered on the Hill of Tara in County Meath for a 'Monster Meeting'. . . . . . .
. . . . . . . on 15th August 1843, another one of the 'Repeal' Movements' 'Monster Meetings' was held - this time on the Hill of Tara, in County Meath; the Brits, already worried at the level of support for these meetings, made their move. . . . . . .
The 'Young Irelanders' newspaper, 'The Nation', put the figure for those in attendance at the Hill of Tara 'Monster Meeting' at three-quarters of a million people "without fear of exaggeration"; Daniel O'Connell himself claimed it was at least one-and-a-half million people, while another newspaper of the day ('The Times'?) reported -
"The whole district was covered with men. The population within a days march began to arrive on foot shortly after daybreak and continued to arrive, on all sides and by every available approach, 'till noon. It was impossible from any one point to see the entire meeting. The number is supposed to have reached between 500,000 and 700,000 persons."
Well the radio's got nothing new to say
& the TV news
seems the same as yesterday
somebody got caught
& somebody died
some days it does a person no damn good, to try & hide
from what their hearts try to tell them
between each beat
between the things we think are true
& what we know we need
& I'm panning for gold
in the litterbox
http://www.cloughmoremvc.co.uk/finn.htm
"The Hill of Tara had five names. The first was Druim Decsuin, or the Conspicuous Hill; the second was Liath Druim, or Liath's Hill from a Firbolg chief of that name who was the first to clear it of wood; the third was Druim Cain, or the Beautiful Hill; the fourth was Cathair Crofinn; and the fifth name was Teamair (now Anglicised Tara, from the genitive case Teambrach of the word), a name which it got from being the burial place of Téa, the wife of Eremon, the son of Milesius." from Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, by Eugene O'Curry, Dublin, 1873.