Demo against NRA at Chester Beatty Library talk

dublin | history and heritage | event notice Thursday August 24, 2006 20:13 by admin - TaraWatch events at tarawatch dot org

8.00am Thursday 31st August

One Day Seminar - 31st August 2006
http://nra.ie/Archaeology/News/#d.en.2102

The Archaeology Section of the National Roads Authority is pleased to announce its annual one-day seminar "New Routes to the Past" which details archaeological discoveries on national road schemes throughout Ireland.

Venue: The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin

Admission is free. Booking is essential.

Please contact:
Lillian Butler
Tel: 01 6602511
Email: lbutler at nra.ie

It's that time of year again....Heritage Week. It will run from 26thAugust - 3rd September.
http://www.heritageweek.ie/

It is being co-ordinated by the Heritage Council, who actually have opposed the M3, but funded by the Department of the Environment, who are the main culprits.

Obviously the NRA conference is supposed to tie in to this 'celebration'. Again, we have to make sure we have a strong showing at 'Heritage Weak' demo at the NRA talk. Will people please start making banners, and trying to get friends and family to attend the demonstration. Please get creative with signs. We also need hard facts. A pie-chart showing the amount of money spent on archaeology v roadbuilding might be good, for example.

The demonstration will begin at 8.30Am outside the Chester Beatty Library next Thursday, 31st Aug.

Funding for Heritage Week comes in part from the Council of Europe, as part of European Heritage Days 2006.

"From August to November, the 48 countries signatory to the European Cultural Convention will be celebrating the European Heritage Days (EHDs), a joint action of the Council of Europe and the European Commission. Once a year for the past 15 years, the EHDs have provided an opportunity to celebrate the unity and diversity of a shared cultural heritage which is Europe¡¯s most distinctive feature." http://www.coe.int/T/E/Cultural_Co-operation/Heritage/Ehd/

We must stress the European importance of Tara during this time, and also highlight the fact that the actions being currently undertaken by the Department of the Environment are in breach of the two European heritage conventions they ahve signed up to.

European Cultural Convention - Paris, 19.XII.1954
http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/Treaties/Html/018.htm

Velletta Convention - The European Convention on the Protection of the
Archaeological Heritage (revised 1992):
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/valletta/

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Can people please spread the word through the internet, by posting it wherever you can think it will be read? I see certain materials are regularly taken from this list and put on others, so it would be good
if this one was included.