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Tara Hill, as seen from Skryne.
A Joyful Update
Beltaine 2007
As the M3 motorway was being put into place around Tara or Temair, the ancient seat of the High King, the very discovery needed to halt the destruction of this heart of Ireland has come to light. Read about it directly on the BBC Northern Ireland website here!
While this is excellent news, Tara still needs our good thoughts and efforts. It is the preservation of such sacred sites, as well as pilgrimages and personal interaction with such that keeps these places alive and well.
If you have any interest in visiting or helping Tara, please review our Links page. Also, any new contacts or information is always appreciated.
Song of the Center
for the Hill of Tara
"I have suffered what will happen to the people of Ireland in time to come," Cormac said, "they will lose their sense of their royalty. They won't know what Tara means. Their horses won't know the way to another way, to the perfect way, of seeing and knowing the world."
- John Moriarty
The gods are leaving this place
it is now only peopled by ghosts;
when the center is gone
where will you stand?
"We will stand in the East,"
I hear you say, "and shower
in the gold of our prosper."
But I say,
not without sovereignty.
Time now to walk
naked and royal
to the perfect place
in the perfect way.
"We will stand in the South,"
I hear you say, "and dance
to the songs ours to be sung."
But I say,
not without sovereignty.
Time now to walk
naked and royal
to the perfect place
in the perfect way.
"We will stand in the West,"
I hear you say, "and revel
in knowledge fit for the gods."
But I say,
not without sovereignty.
Time now to walk
naked and royal
to the perfect place
in the perfect way.
"We will stand in the North,"
I hear you say, "and fight
the battle for all that is right."
But I say,
not without sovereignty.
Time now to walk
naked and royal
to the perfect place
in the perfect way.
The gods are leaving this place
it is now only peopled by ghosts;
when the center is gone
where will you stand?
By Jason Kirkey, 2007, upon his visit to Tara
Used with the author's permission
