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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 »
Summer Solstice @ Tara 2010
It is almost the end of longest day of this year, 2010. This morning I was betwixt two trees in my sleeping hammock on the perimeter of the Hill of Tara. It was just past 4am and the sun was beginning to rise. I could see through the opening of my cocooned suspended bed, the [...]
Published by itison on June 21st, 2010 tagged activism, campaigns, spirituality | Comment now »
June 21st is final day of filming this project
On Thursday 10th and 17th of June IT/IS/ON Productions will conduct a number of interviews with people about the Tara / M3 controversy in the DCTV studio in central Dublin. These will be the last interviews for the Tara Saga documentary which will then culminate with the final scenes being filmed at the summer solstice [...]
Published by itison on June 5th, 2010 tagged campaigns, future, news, project notes | Comment now »
Tara TV : Panel Show : March 17th : Participation Callout
info is here… TaraTV info doc1 (pdf) if you would like to participate right now.. the comments are open where you can also leave a video or voicemail… [EDIT: video comments not working well.. bubblecast option (The "Add Video Comment" link on the very bottom), here is how you get in.. tarasara gabhra ] addthis_url [...]
Published by itison on February 12th, 2010 tagged campaigns, news, project notes | 7 Comments »
WAC6 + project update
Well a lot has happened since the last post here back in May…. At the Guth Gafa festival where I spoke on a panel about this project I met Chris Eva who is a film-maker from Derry. He was very interested in the project and has since become part of the team. Chris has been [...]
Published by itison on November 25th, 2008 tagged activism, archaeology, campaigns, news, project notes, video | 3 Comments »
Squeak In A Hole
Breaking News A brave protester known as Squeak is down in a tunnel at Rath Lugh in a surprise move in the campaign. She has firmly embedded herself beneath the path of the road. The tunnel is the result of massive undertaking over the past few months by protesters opposed to the construction of the [...]
Published by itison on March 7th, 2008 tagged activism, campaigns, links, video | 2 Comments »
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 »
Giant’s Ring – 08/01/08
Demonstration at The Giant’s Ring, Ballynahatty, Belfast on 8th January 2007. Newsclip via The Irish News (IN.TV) Note: I have re-uploaded this clip here as I could not properly embed the video from the www.in.tv site. I got under the bonnet and did some tinkering with the source code and it worked ok but I [...]