Archive for the 'art' Category
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Feis Teamhra 29th August 2010
The 3rd Feis Teamhra: A Turn at Tara, took place last Sunday 29th August behind the church on the Hill of Tara. From 3 till 5 pm those present were treated to a selection of poetry and music from Aidan Brennan, Susan McKeown, Michael Longley, Laoise Kelly, Paul Muldoon, Colm Toibín and Seamus Heaney. It was a [...]
Published by itison on September 1st, 2010 tagged art, campaigns, history, music | Comment now »
Lugh rises up against NRA chief.
Original artwork Jim Fitzpatrick – Lugh the ildana at Royal Tara (1979) Modification Unknown? – (2008) addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fitison.tv%2Ftara%2Farchives%2F61′; addthis_title = ‘Lugh+rises+up+against+NRA+chief.’; addthis_pub = ”;
Published by itison on January 25th, 2008 tagged activism, art, history, mytholgy, transport | Comment now »
Jim Fitzpatrick – 09/01/08
(if you can’t view the video in this format, click here to see it in on Blip.tv) This is pretty much the entire interview with the artist Jim Fitzpatrick on the 9th of January 2008. It is roughly edited, mainly just to clean it up a bit and keep it flowing. I’ve removed most of [...]
Published by itison on January 9th, 2008 tagged activism, antiquity, archaeology, art, campaigns, history, links, mytholgy, politics, transport, video | 1 Comment »
Here is a gift! – Aerial Art Event Rough Edit # 1
This is a rough cut from the footage of the aerial art event. Helicopter shot courtesy of John Quigley and Mofilms. Music courtesy of Stephen Shannon and Halfset. There will be more to come from this event. The ten minutes or so here was put out today to keep up the spirits of all those [...]
Published by itison on December 24th, 2007 tagged activism, art, campaigns, history, music, video | 4 Comments »
Alan King – 20/10/07
Alan King is a theatre director and actor from Dublin. Last month he put on a play with Waterford Youth Arts entitled “Festival” which was centred around Tara. He worked with a group of teenagers over the summer to develop this fascinating piece of theatre which is a little slice of life in modern day [...]
Published by mark on October 20th, 2007 tagged art, music, politics, video | 1 Comment »
Promo # 1
made from the collaborative work of: Fiona Ashe Trish Groves John Quigley Martin O’ Brien Robbie Proctor Mark Cantwell (and of course all the people who came to the events) on the weekend of 22nd / 23rd September 2007 The tune being played is “Planxty Fanny Power (Ms Trench)” as composed by Turlough O’ Carolan [...]
Published by itison on September 27th, 2007 tagged activism, art, campaigns, history, music, video | Comment now »
Laoise Kelly – 23/09/07
Laoise Kelly, one of Ireland’s finest harpers, talks passionately about Tara after the aerial art event on the Hill of Tara, September 23rd 2007. The light was fading fast, so apologies for the bad colour correction job. As with all the videos in this project it is the content that matters. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fitison.tv%2Ftara%2Farchives%2F28′; addthis_title [...]
Published by mark on September 23rd, 2007 tagged activism, art, campaigns, history, music, politics, video | Comment now »
Stuart Townsend – Hill Of Tara – 23/09/07
This is an interview with actor, director and activist, Stuart Townsend before the aerial art event on the Hill Of Tara on Sunday 23rd September 2007. He talks about his involvement with the campaign and alternatives to the motorway. The cutaways are of the preparation of the aerial art event by Stuart’s friend, the artist [...]