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Uisneach Fire Festival

category national | environment | opinion/analysis author Tuesday April 13, 2010 08:43author by thegreenspirit - Private Report this post to the editors

Making Money from Heritage

The planned Festival of Fire on the Hill Of Uisneach, in West Meath on May eve cannot be welcomed or allowed pass with comment or protest.
This festival, once among the most ancient of all our festivals has grown from a renewed small gathering of spiritually minded people to a business venture now and one with scant regard for the ecology, heritage and environment of this ancient site.

The planned Festival of Fire on the Hill Of Uisneach, in West Meath on May eve cannot be welcomed or allowed pass with comment or protest.
This festival, once among the most ancient of all our festivals has grown from a renewed small gathering of spiritually minded people to a business venture now, and one with scant regard for the ecology, heritage and environment of this ancient site.
This year it is to have an admission fee, the first time in a long, long span of history that money has been demanded or charged charged there.
It is planned that thousands will attend and if previous years are to go by it will involve a drunken, litter leaving mob trampling the site in darkness.
Ancients monuments may be damaged, defiled or ruined. Nothing will be enhanced, secured or made better
I do not know if the hill is a national monument but I am sure that there are laws to protect such sites and to stop events and gatherings like this from happening?
This is simply a business man moving in on tradition, it corresponds to Fianna Fails new found interest in our heritage; as something to abuse and ignore but sell and make money from if and when possible.
All involved should be stopped and the ancient site left alone. That and that alone is the reason it has survived.

TheGreenSpirit

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Come off it     srsly?    Wed Apr 21, 2010 14:19 
   Bealtaine     DRUID    Wed Apr 21, 2010 18:58 
   More Guesswork.     King of Tara.    Wed Apr 21, 2010 19:22 
   disagree     duffy    Thu Apr 22, 2010 15:06 
   A Few MoreToughts on the Festival     thegreenspirit    Thu Apr 22, 2010 16:18 
   Vive le Vigil     Tara Tara Tara    Thu Apr 22, 2010 17:17 
   Joe Duffy     TaraTaraTara    Thu Apr 22, 2010 17:22 
   Remember     The Green Spirit    Sat Apr 24, 2010 15:14 
   Keep our Hertiage Alive     Skilled Craftworker    Mon Apr 26, 2010 12:30 
 10   British by Accident.     Shetland Viking.    Mon Apr 26, 2010 12:55 
 11   Heritage     TaraTaraTara    Mon Apr 26, 2010 14:05 
 12   Festival of fire     Rhino    Mon Apr 26, 2010 19:31 
 13   Profane Fire     Tara Tara Tara    Wed Apr 28, 2010 10:25 
 14   Accountability     Morrigan    Wed Apr 28, 2010 15:10 
 15   To Those Who Care     The GreenSpirit    Wed Apr 28, 2010 16:01 
 16   The Plan     TaraTaraTara    Wed Apr 28, 2010 16:03 
 17   New Age -New Fascism more like     Cormac    Wed Apr 28, 2010 19:18 
 18   to members of this forum     Ceridwen    Wed Apr 28, 2010 19:39 
 19   You may have rattled the right cage GS     cesair    Wed Apr 28, 2010 22:45 
 20   To Cormac     Loughcrew    Thu Apr 29, 2010 09:07 
 21   Warning     The Green Spirit    Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:32 
 22   Get a Grip     mountain maeve    Thu Apr 29, 2010 18:00 
 23   To this forum 2     Ceridwen    Thu Apr 29, 2010 19:07 
 24   Mr Fenwick and Dr. Conor Newman     Amazed    Thu Apr 29, 2010 20:23 
 25   lack of info is unacceptable     infoseeker    Thu Apr 29, 2010 20:56 
 26   infoseeker-follow the money and do the maths     cesair    Thu Apr 29, 2010 22:26 
 27   Is anyone reading my posts?     Ceridwen    Thu Apr 29, 2010 22:39 
 28   Kaching     Tara Tara Tara    Fri Apr 30, 2010 09:12 
 29   alcohol and sacred sites     Potato Repuiblican writes...    Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:11 
 30   Alcohol     Camper    Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:43 
 31   Bealtaine and the Telling of a Myth     The GreenSpirit    Fri Apr 30, 2010 14:37 
 32   Wrong date of Bealtaine anyway     Mary Maloney    Fri Apr 30, 2010 20:02 
 33   Thank You     ceridwen    Sat May 01, 2010 03:58 
 34   The Celtic Calendar     Realist    Sat May 01, 2010 09:19 
 35   Report please     Ceridwen    Sun May 02, 2010 14:14 
 36   Astronomy was born.     Galileo.    Sun May 02, 2010 14:35 
 37   Moon Cycles     Ceridwen    Sun May 02, 2010 17:42 
 38   Huygens.     Galileo.    Sun May 02, 2010 18:02 
 39   My Last Post On This     thegreenspirit    Sun May 02, 2010 18:54 
 40   A Wallop called Yeats.     Galileo    Sun May 02, 2010 19:00 
 41   Festival of the fires     David_74    Sun May 02, 2010 21:33 
 42   Back from the Festival     Antonia    Sun May 02, 2010 22:09 
 43   actual experience at the festival speaks the loudest     ceridwen    Mon May 03, 2010 00:26 
 44   Festival     Tara Tara Tara    Mon May 03, 2010 16:51 
 45   More pics     Tara Tara Tara    Mon May 03, 2010 17:06 
 46   More pics     Tara Tara Tara    Mon May 03, 2010 17:09 
 47   More pics     Tara Tara Tara    Mon May 03, 2010 17:15 
 48   Good pictures     ceridwen    Mon May 03, 2010 23:03 
 49   Assessment     MacGreine    Tue May 04, 2010 09:36 
 50   Ownership     Morrigan    Tue May 04, 2010 10:01 
 51   Worse than Machnas.     Maeve.    Tue May 04, 2010 15:13 
 52   Walking Bouncy Castles.     Technologist.    Tue May 04, 2010 16:32 
 53   sensitivity     Bruce    Fri May 07, 2010 12:41 
 54   Heat     Tara Tara Tara    Sun May 09, 2010 12:15 
 55   Irish Times Festival of the fires     Lizzy    Tue May 11, 2010 16:10 
 56   hard information     infoseeker    Wed May 12, 2010 04:13 
 57   Hill of Uisneach.     John Coleman(Clann Cholmáin)    Fri Aug 27, 2010 03:17 
 58   Coincidence     Sacred Sites of Ireland    Fri Aug 27, 2010 09:49 
 59   Compulsary Purchase Order.     Lawyer.    Sat Aug 28, 2010 13:26 


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