Archive

Coillte: the mismanagement of Ireland’s forests

This was first published on our website in the Tara Foundation monthly magazine (January 2007 Volume 2, Issue 1). It is relevant to the...

The Significance of Casement’s Putamayo Journal, 1910

Brian Guerin This article was originally published online in November 2006 at http://homepage.eircom.net/~guerin/tfmnov2006.pdf The...

Shell, the Corrib Gas Field and the Irish Constitution

Article based on letter sent to Irish papers, July 2005 The behaviour of the High Court in jailing the Rossport Five for insisting on...

The National Monuments Act 2004

[The Minister] may decide... to order the levelling of Newgrange, the Rock of Cashel, Glendalough, or the Hill of Tara itself...

The 1972 Supreme Court Judgement on Tara

A decision delivered by the Supreme Court in 1972 is of lasting significance with regard to what is to be regarded a National Monument.

The Tara Case and the Irish Constitution

A 2006 challenge to the construction of the M3 Motorway through the Tara landscape was rejected. During the 1972 proceedings, the State...

Morgan Kelly on the Bank Bailout

This article was written in response to Morgan Kelly's piece in the Irish Times of 8 November 2010 entitled 'If you thought the bank...