{"id":1274,"date":"2014-12-02T01:38:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T01:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2014-12-03T00:42:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T00:42:39","slug":"walking-tara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/walking-tara\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Tara"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Walking<\/a>
Walking the site at Tara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Where druids walked, I walked it too
\nThe footsteps of history
\nWalked by soldiers, rebels, peasants and kings
\nWalked by my poet friends, and me.<\/p>\n

If, those in power, they were to
\nAs they did with Tara, build roads that heritage destroys
\nWould folk be as silent and not care
\nIf the site was Clonfert, Knock or Clonmacnois?<\/p>\n

Background:<\/strong>
\nTo a perceived national apathy of the destruction of the site at Tara, the poet while walking there pondered if similar was done at Clonmacnois for instance, where all the round towers, the church ruins, the cemetery, right up to McCarthys castle were leveled to make a roadway, and the roundabouts of the same were called after the monuments that were destroyed to make them, there would be national uproar.Tara is four or more times the size of that, dates back to the time of the pyramids, and was in use at Christs time and long after.<\/p>\n

Even Opus Dei, whose HQ is beside one of the main sites – its importance to the complex being only understood now after the development, tried to point out what was being destroyed, but to deaf ears that worship not God, but Mammon.<\/p><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where druids walked, I walked it too The footsteps of history Walked by soldiers, rebels, peasants and kings Walked by my poet friends, and me. If, those in power, they were to As they did with Tara, build roads that heritage destroys Would folk be as silent and not care …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256,1246,1],"tags":[1064,1201,1441,1440,263,262,1066],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-heritage","category-struggle-to-save-tara","category-uncategorized","tag-carmel-diviney","tag-irish-water","tag-kyrie-murray","tag-lismullen","tag-skryne","tag-tara","tag-tara-calling","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-ky","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1336,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wells-of-tara\/","url_meta":{"origin":1274,"position":0},"title":"Wells of Tara","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"17th December 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"From Tara, where expanse can be seen, From the Irish sea, to the Shannons water Expanse of the Kingdom of Royal Meath Won by the Ui Neill by battles slaughter It was a sacred place before their time Its energies aligned with stars and sun Weakened now in these modern\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Ireland"","block_context":{"text":"Ireland","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/ireland\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Tom\u00e1s at the Liath Fail in its current setting. 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