Wed May 28, 2008 10:03 pm
Hi,
I finally received this from Aosdána today. To recap:
Aosdána,
the national Irish arts organisation, unamimously passed a motion at it's
annual General Assembly, on Thursday, 8th May, agreeing with statements made
by Seamus Heaney about the negative impact of
running the M3 motorway through
Tara. The Irish Arts Council established Aosdána in 1981 to honour those
artists whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the arts in
Ireland, and to encourage and assist members in devoting their energies fully
to their art.
Aosdána members meet annually in a General Assembly, to elect
new members, to review the affairs of the organisation and to discuss
the position of the artist, and the arts in society.
VS
The following
motion, proposed by Michael Holohan and seconded by
Dermot Healy, was passed
by the Assembly -
" That Aosdána supports the recent statement (in the
Irish Times
1st/2nd March 2008) by our fellow member Seamus Heaney that
the
surrounding archaeological landscape beside the ancient hill of
Tara
has been "desacralised" by the construction of the M3 motorway
and
consequently Aosdána calls upon the Minister for the
Environment,
Heritage and Local Government to strengthen the present
legislation
(National Monuments Act 2004) immediately in order to prevent
the
further destruction of our other national archaeological sites"
In
case you missed it, you can listen to the comments by Seamus Heaney,
on the
BBC documentary, at: http://tarawatch.
Save
the Hill of Tara from the M3 Motorway!
http://www.tarawatc
