TY - JOUR
KW - Celtic tiger
KW - Contested site
KW - heritage
KW - identity
KW - Ireland
KW - M3 motorway
AU - Kathryn Rountree
AB - 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.
DO - 10.3998/jar.0521004.0068.404
M1 - 4
N1 - Publisher: University of New Mexico
N2 - 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.
SP - 519
EP - 544
TI - Tara, the M3, and the celtic Tiger: Contesting cultural heritage, identity, and a sacred landscape in Ireland
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84871596836&doi=10.3998%2fjar.0521004.0068.404&partnerID=40&md5=2d6722d8de79d3c070ffe25b288bda57
VL - 68
SN - 00917710 (ISSN)
ER -