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Tara and the Ark of the Covenant by Mairead Carew (Hardback, 2003)

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During 1899 and 1902, members of the British-Israel Association of London came to County Meath to dig up the Hill of Tara. These 'British-Israelites' believed they would find buried there the Ark of the Covenant, the chest said to contain the Ten Commandments inscribed on stone tablets. Their strange and unlawful activity provoked a protest from cultural figures such as William Butler Yeats, Douglas Hyde and Maud Gonne - who lit a bonfire and sang 'A nation once again' on Tara. The Press supported their protests, making this the first media campaign to save a national monument. This book tells the story of the British-Israelite excavations on Tara in its archaelogical, historical, cultural and political context. Who were the excavators? Was their mission entirely eccentric, or part of the deeper story of class acrimony and emergent nationalism? How successful was the backlash? Historian and archaeologist Mairead Carew pieces together the narrative of Tara and the Ark in lively and meticulous detail, showing how the clash between the British-Israelites and the cultural nationalists represented colonialism versus emergent nationalism. While the British-Israelites dreamt of sacred treasure, the Irish patriots battled to save a national monument, making this more than just a strange interlude in history.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Royal Irish Academy
ISBN-10
0954385527
ISBN-13
9780954385521
eBay Product ID (ePID)
105051668

Product Key Features

Author
Mairead Carew
Format
With Printed Dust Jacket, Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Regional History
Type
Textbook

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
Dublin
Series Part/Volume Number
No. 7
First Published
2003
Series Title
Discovery Programme Reports
Content Note
28 Photos
Author Biography
Mairead Carew is a cultural historian and archaeologist. Her research interests include cultural history, archaeology, history of ideas, diaspora studies and the 1930s. She is the author of Tara and the Ark of the Covenant (2003).
Date of Publication
13/04/2003
Volume Editor
Aisling Flood
Country of Publication
Ireland

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