Archive for January, 2008
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 »
Update 22/01/08
This just a quick post in order to get some feedback on the functionality of the site. The intention is for this to be an archive, a hub of sorts, linking other information relating to Tara from around the web in a structured and easy to use format. Input from visitors to this site is [...]
Published by itison on January 22nd, 2008 tagged project notes | 1 Comment »
A better view from above.
A good friend pointed me in the direction of an exciting cartography resource which is now online. OSI (Ordnance Survey Ireland) has just introduced a new service called Smart Maps where you can view detailed maps of the whole of Ireland. Zoom in and you get aerial photos. The great thing about this is we [...]
Published by itison on January 22nd, 2008 tagged environment, geography, links | 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 »
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 [...]
Published by itison on January 8th, 2008 tagged campaigns, environment, video | 3 Comments »
Tara: Land, Legend, Legacy
This is an excellent radio documentary which was broadcast on Newstalk yesterday (January 6th 2008) as part of the “Different Voices” series. It was created and produced by Grace Wynne Jones. “As the controversy surrounding Tara continues, this programme explores the myths and legends of the ancient site. Included in the documentary are eminent historians, [...]
Published by itison on January 7th, 2008 tagged audio, history, mytholgy | Comment now »
Lost Atlantis and Mathematics
“Atlantis from a Geographer’s Perspective: Mapping the Fairy Land” is a book by Ulf Erlingsson. I’ve not read it but I have studied the research on his website Atlantis in Ireland. It is concise and offers interesting theories on the roots of civilisation prior to ancient Greece and Egypt. We know that the megalithic sites [...]