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Jump To Comment: 2 1The meeting time to form the harp on Tara, has changed, check with the organisers
Pulling Strings to Save Valley
Harpers of Ireland are using their musical talents to stop a motorway being built.
Evening Herald
Thur, 20 September 2007
By Eamon Carr
It must have been a monster jam! The place was Tara and the date was 1792 when thousands of harpers gathered because of a crisis. Back then they were worried that harp music was on the decline and so convened a summit to save the day.
More than 200 years later the Harpers of Ireland again feel it's necessary to meet in protest.
This time their concern is destruction of the Tara valley by the Government who stubbornly insist on putting a motorway through a landscape that's now on the endangered sites list of the international World Monuments Fund.
PROTEST
On Saturday, in what is a unique misical and cultural event, the harpers of Ireland will gather at the Dail and make their musical protest.
"What's great is that, while we all wouldn't necessarily agree on harp styles and how the harp tradition should be passed on, everyone is unanimous on this," says harpist Laoise Kelly. "Everyone disagrees with the motorway."
Laoise, a recording artist who's worked with Kate Bush, The Chieftans, Mary Black and others, became active in the campaign earlier this year.
"I knew that this awful thing was going on at Tara but like everyone else in Ireland I put my head in the sand," she says. "I realised I should be doing more.#
"My friend Ann-Marie O'Farrell, a really well-known harpist who has a high standing in the harp world said, "we should bring our harps and surround the Dail with harps, explains Laoise.
SUPPORT
"We're getting huge support from mjusicians all around the world."
"The harp has been used in the coat of arms of Ireland since 1270 and is the symbol of the Irish State today," says Laoise.
"We object to the continued destruction of cultural sites in the Tara/Skryne Valley."
"Turlough O'Carolan went to Tara and composed Planxty Wilkinson," says Laoise. "For centuries Baronstown at Tara was the place for thousands of harpers to meet at the large circular enclosure that they (the developers) destroyed under cover of darkness at 4am on July 4.
"But the power of the harp is incredible," she adds.
Assembly of the Harpers of Ireland at Kildare Streeton Saturday at 3.00pm
Hollywood actor joins Tara protest
Stuart Townsend is protesting about the route of a motorway
Press Association Ltd.
Last Updated: 20 September 2007 6:30 PM
Actor Stuart Townsend is to take time out from Hollywood to protest against the routing of the M3 motorway near the Hill of Tara, campaigners said.
The Irish star, who recently sparked speculation he had married his girlfriend actress Charlize Theron, is expected to join demonstrators at the Dail.
Hothouse Flowers singer Liam O'Maonlai will also turn out in Dublin to back the show of opposition to the destruction of parts of the archaeologically-rich Tara valley.
Harpists will play outside Leinster House, in a symbolic gesture of Irish heritage, as a petition to Environment Minister John Gormley demanding an alternative to the current plans is handed over.
The 36-year-old Townsend, from Howth, in north Co Dublin, will also join his friend aerial photographer John Quigley for another demonstration at the Hill of Tara.
The pair are to fly over the ancient Co Meath landmark to take photographs of hundreds of campaigners forming a "human harp".
"Ireland is unique in having a musical instrument, the harp, as its national emblem," said a spokesman for campaigners TaraWatch.
"This indicates the primacy of the harp in Irish culture. The sites currently under threat are inextricably linked with the harping and bardic traditions for more than 2,500 years."
Other harpist events are to take place outside Irish consulates in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles at the same time as the Dublin protest, according to protesters.
Irish Pulitzer prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon and Irish Grammy award-winning singer Susan McKeown are expected to be among other artists at an event in New York.