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Tara’s Future in Jeopardy

By Louise Carroll, Contributor
June / July 2004

June 1, 2004 by By Louise Carroll, Contributor<br/><a href=“https://irishamerica.com/archives/2004-archive/june-july-2004/”>June / July 2004</a> Leave a Comment

The construction of a motorway in County Meath has historians, archaeologists, politicians and others up in arms. The proposed M3 toll road will run through the Tara Skryne Valley, which the protestors argue is a part of the Hill of Tara National Monument. The Hill of Tara was a central ceremonial, burial and royal area in pagan times, and it dates back to 4000 B.C. The highest … [Read more...] about Tara’s Future in Jeopardy

November 27, 1953

On this day in 1953, Irish American playwright Eugene O’Neill died at the age of 65. O’Neill was fittingly born in a Broadway hotel room to Irish immigrant actor James O’Neill and Mary Ellen Quinlan. He grew up around the stage and while at boarding school, he surrounded himself with books. After a long depression and battle with alcoholism and a recovery from tuberculosis, O’Neill decided to dedicate his life to writing plays. O’Neill’s first published play “Beyond the Horizon” opened on Broadway in 1920 to great acclaim. He was awarded his first Pulitzer Prize for Drama, with two more to follow. In 1936, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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