Has anyone else heard about the freeway that the Irish PM Dick Roche is having built through one corner of Tara? Tara, as in the 2000-4000 year old mound of monuments and tunnels where the ancient Irish kings were crowned? So firstly, my question is, is anyone else as mad about this as I am? And secondly, there's a petition up on tarawatch.org, but is there any more direct way of getting results, barring flying to Ireland and joining the protesters?
2007-08-10 16:06:04 · 3 answers · asked by Pip 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
A similar situation arose on Okinawa Island in Japan during the early 1970s, shortly after the island reverted back to Japanese control. The Japanese were going to build an expressway to connect the two largest cities on the island. One in the south. One in the north. But, they found the path of the expressway would cut through a hillside which contained historical artifacts of Okinawa's Ryukyan culture that pre-dated Japanese culture by over one thousand years. Needless to say, the road was re-designed to go around that hillside.
You might want to post a message at the below web site's guest book. It's read by a lot of folks who live in Okinawa and they might make "cyber contact" with those in the Irish Republic to stop this sort of nonsense.
2007-08-10 16:38:45 · answer #1 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Signed the petition, but can't fly there to join the protestors, wish I could.
2007-08-10 23:31:24 · answer #2 · answered by cowboy 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
THATS JUST MESSED UP
2007-08-11 01:51:41 · answer #3 · answered by bsuddarth123 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋