• UN PETITION
  • UNESCO NOMINATION
  • RESOURCES
    • 31 Tentative List Proposals Made
    • Ministers statements
    • News stories
    • Public Information Meetings
    • Royal Irish Sites serial nomination
    • Expert Panel
    • Minister’s Guidelines for Submissions
    • TaraWatch Nomination form
  • STATEMENTS
    • 2048
    • COMPLAINT TO IRISH TIMES – PLEASE WRITE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
    • Landmarks Foundation
    • Mayor & City of Chicago
    • Professor George Eogan
    • The Discovery Programme
    • The Heritage Council
    • The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
    • World Monuments Fund
    • Archaeological Institute of America
    • Sacred Sites International
    • International Celtic Congress
    • Massachusetts Archaeological Society
  • UNESCO/ICOMOS PETITION

RESOURCES

Here are some useful links for developing your submission to the Expert Advisory Panel, set up by the Minister for the Environment to review Ireland’s Tentative List.

UNESCO rules

The UNESCO World Heritage Centre

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention

The Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention

UNESCO reports – Ireland

Application of the World Heritage Convention by State Parties (Ireland)

UNESCO-ICOMOS reactive monitoring mission report on the Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne – 2004

UNESCO Reports – Stonehenge

UNESCO regrets U.K. government’s decision to cancel A303 road improvement scheme for Stonehenge World Heritage property – 2007

Stonehenge Public Consultation booklet

Stonehenge World Heritage Site – Management Plan – Sunnary

Stonehenge World Heritage Site – Management Plan – Consultation Draft – July 2008

ICOMOS rules

Ethical Commitment Statement for ICOMOS Members

Tarawatch

  • Tarawatch home
  • Contact Tarawatch
  • Myspace Home
  • Myspace Cause
  • Facebook Cause
  • Yahoogroups List
  • Twitter

News

  • TaraWatch's Laura Grealish on Newstalk this morning
  • Irish Times: GPO tops survey of important Irish sites
  • Public consultation for N2 Clonttibret to NI scheme ends 31 Aug - Pl
  • Feis Teamhra: 3 - 5 o’clock on August 29 2010 - the Hill of Tara
  • Carrickmines Castle archaeologists Facebook group - Post-excavation

Events

  • Tara Round Table, Trinity College Dublin, 24 March 2009

Video

  • Jonathan Rhys-Myers interview
  • Professor George Eogan interview
  • RTE News: Tara called 'endangered heritage site'
  • Protestors play harps outside Dail

Audio

  • BBC Documentary 'Tar on Tara' interview with Seamus Heaney, 1 March 2008:

Links

  • UNESCO World Heritage Centre
  • UN Global Compact
  • World Monuments Fund: Tara Hill
  • Smithsonian magazine: Hill of Tara
  • ICOMOS International
  • ICOMOS Ireland
  • WAC6- Sixth World Archaeological Congress, Dublin 2008
  • National Roads Authority - M3 web site
  • Eurolink -SIAC/Ferrovial M3 web site

Statements

  • Statements by Minister for the Environment, John Gormley about UNESCO listing for Tara
  • World Monuments Fund 100 Most Endangered Sites List 2008 - Tara Hill entry
  • Archaeological Institute of America - Tara statement and news
  • Heritage Council Statement on Tara
  • Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
  • Sacred Sites International - 2005 Most Endangered Sites - Tara

International Press Stories

  • Archaeology Magazine - 'Road to Ruin', 2 July 2007
  • Archaeology Magazine - Lismullin 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 poet Paul Muldoon
  • New York Times - 'A Road Runs Through Tara; by Colm Toibin New York Times - Next Exit: Food, Gas and the Burial Place of Irish Kings
  • Toronto Star: Celtic Tiger threatens 'very soul of historic Ireland'
  • Washington Post - In Ireland, Commuters vs. Kings

Books

  • Tara. An Archaeological Survey - Conor Newman
  • The Kingship and Landscape of Tara - Edel Bhreathnach, editor
  • Location/OxbowTara and the Ark of the Covenant - Mairead Carew
  • Irish Kings and High Kings - Francis John Byrne

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