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MORE THAN 1,550 heritage events are taking place around the country over the next three days with a view to protect and enhance the richness, quality and diversity of Ireland’s national heritage.
National Heritage Week is providing an exciting look at Irish culture, and will see everything from archaeology, traditional skills, and historical re-enactments explored – and heritage properties not usually open to the public unlocked.
More than 600,000 people are expected to take part in the festival and most of the events are free. A list of events can be checked by location and category through the free iPhone / Android Heritage Week Event App or through heritageweek.ie.
Check out some of the highlights for today…
Public Lecture: New Discoveries at Saint Canice’s Cathedral Close, Kilkenny
24 August : 20:00 – 22:00 free
The Heritage Council sponsored by the Saint Canice’s Cathedral Close Archaeological Project has unearthed exciting new discoveries that have much to tell us about the origins of the city and the development of the Close. These are to be revealed for the first time at the event – so don’t miss out!
Venue: Heritage Council, Church Lane Kilkenny, Co Kilkenny.
Laois – Wildlife Illustration Workshop with Gordon D’Arcy
24 August, 11:00 -13:00 (free)
Learn how to draw Irish wildlife with well-known author and illustrator Gordon D’Arcy in this wildlife drawing workshop for children. Venue: Durrow Library, The Courthouse, Durrow. Laois County Libraries. Tel: 057 8674312.
Discover Tara: Ireland’s Ancient Capital
24 August : 08:00 – 23:00 (€1.99 special offer of one-third off for Heritage Week)
Walk in the footsteps of High Kings and heroes and experience the legends, rituals and monuments of Tara for yourself. Download the audio from our website to enjoy at your own pace; the family pack includes puzzles, colouring and things to do.
Venue: Hill of Tara, Tara, Co Meath
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National Heritage Week 2012 will run from the 18th to the 26th of August
Any chance of luring all Taliban into one place and nuking them.
They’re defending there country would you liked to have put all the IRA men fighting in the troubles in the 70s in one place and nuke them.
@shane. If by ‘defending their country’ you in fact mean ‘ want to set up a neo caliphate and believe its their right to kill non believers’ then youre right. Otherwise no. ( wonder what they’ll do to beliebers?)
I know what you mean,but you can’t say that they don’t have a right to defend there land,alot of times is a farmer shooting at them because he’s pissed off at them for attracting attention of the taliban by trampling through his fields.not all muslims are extremist
@ Shane. Wow what an amazing like for like analogy!! Last time I checked, northern Irish paramilitaries were not burning down schools, refusing to allow women to be educated after the age of eight, forcing child marriage, or banning women from general hospitals.
Catholics were burnt out of there homes they could not get jobs and were basically excluded from politics.is that the reason the UN is there then,why arnt they in all the other Muslim countrys that this happens in.If say for instance Scotland invaded Ireland in the morning through no fault of your own would you just try and make the most of you and your family’s life or would you try do something about it.
The Taliban are not representative of the Pashtun people or the other diverse peoples of Afghanistan. Read up on your Afghan history.
So you think that there glad to have the UN there after all they can grow opium again after the taliban had banned it.Does anybody want foreign soldiers in there country I doubt it somehow
Yes actually I would Shane, they’re all scvm
Also learn the difference between there, their and they’re. What age are you? You clearly haven’t a clue about what’s going on. It’s NATO who are in charge of operations in Afghanistan, not the UN
I was replying to your nuke them all question
Shane – defending their country my hole. A bunch of nuts hiding behind a ‘religion of peace’ the majority of whom Re not even from Afghanistan. A bunch of thugs who terrorised a local populace.
The UN are there at the request of the Government of Afghanistan to assist it and the people of Afghanistan in laying the foundations for sustainable peace and development. As for your opium comment, Between 1996 and 1999 Mullah Omar reversed his opinions on the drug trade, apparently as it only harmed kafirs. The Taliban controlled 96% of Afghanistan’s poppy fields and made opium its largest source of taxation. Taxes on opium exports became one of the mainstays of Taliban income and their war economy.
Any more ‘facts’ Shane, or will you admit that your analogy is based on assumptions and poor research?
No mate I come here for questions and answers I can admit when I’m wrong.I thought the Americans went in after bin laden that they weren’t invited wasn’t the taliban in government they were fighting the northern alliance.
Germany rules large tracts of western European the early 40′s yet, would you agree that they were the rightful rulers?
Read what they (Taliban) did in Mazar-i-Sharif. Is this behaviour that is acceptable when assuming power?
I’m not saying I support the taliban any group that wants sharia law should not be aloud near politics at all.my point is that you can’t blame people who want to defend there land from invaders the farmers hate when troops come into there area becauae it attracts the taliban in for a fight,they just want to be left alone from both sides
Where are the bleeding hearts now…… Guess we have a good idea what the outcome of this will be…….
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