01747nas a2200217   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653001700043653001900060653001300079653001300092653001200105653001600117100002100133245011400154856015300268300001200421490000700433520106900440022002001509                                       d10aCeltic tiger10aContested site10aheritage10aidentity10aIreland10aM3 motorway1 aKathryn Rountree00aTara, the M3, and the celtic Tiger: Contesting cultural heritage, identity, and a sacred landscape in Ireland  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84871596836&doi=10.3998%2fjar.0521004.0068.404&partnerID=40&md5=2d6722d8de79d3c070ffe25b288bda57  a519-5440 v683 aNationalism, 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.  a00917710 (ISSN)