@article{13999,
  keywords = {Celtic tiger, Contested site, heritage, identity, Ireland, M3 motorway},
  author = {Kathryn Rountree},
  title = {Tara, the M3, and the celtic Tiger: Contesting cultural heritage, identity, and a sacred landscape in Ireland},
  abstract = {Nationalism, Sacred landscape, Tara This article explores the intersubjectivities of person and place, present and past, imagination and memory, heritage and identity, in the context of a decade-long dispute over the Irish government s decision to build a motorway through the iconic landscape of Tara in County Meath. Tara has performed as a mnemonic for innumerable cultural narratives from the Neolithic to the twentieth century- stories materialized in the archaeological monuments and sedimented in the landscape. The state s backing of the motorway signaled a departure from the traditional, state-encouraged yoking of Tara with Irish roots, identity, and nationalism and pointed to a major reconfi guration of the state s relationship with its cultural heritage at the height of the economic boom called the Celtic Tiger. Public debate became entangled with bitterly contesting views about the republic s economic and political direction. The paper argues that the campaign to save Tara was a fi ght as much for intangible heritage as for tangible heritage.},
  volume = {68},
  number = {4},
  pages = {519-544},
  issn = {00917710 (ISSN)},
  url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84871596836&doi=10.3998%2fjar.0521004.0068.404&partnerID=40&md5=2d6722d8de79d3c070ffe25b288bda57},
  doi = {10.3998/jar.0521004.0068.404},
  note = {Publisher: University of New Mexico},
}