File 9 - Correspondence (Second campaign)

1 folder (c. 100 pp)

File of correspondence and campaign material relating to a new proposed airstrip.

Correspondents include Noel Kavanagh, Co-ordinator of National Programmes at Bord Fáilte, who are supporting the protection of the bog; John Cunningham - Editor of the Connacht Tribune; Submission to Síle De Valera TD - Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands on behalf of the Save Roundstone Bog campaign raising points on the impact and threats of an airport on Connemara; Éamon Ó Cuív TD; third party correspondence between Ó Cuív and Derrick Hambleton of An Taisce; Frank Fahey TD; Rúairí Quinn TD; Alan Dukes TD.

File of correspondence received by Tim Robinson from supporters and opponents of the Save Roundstone Bog campaign. Some enclose correspondence they have sent to Ministers of State. Correspondents: Mary O'Keeffe; Uli Schuh; Penny Perrick; Patrick Curry; Jean and John Dawkins; Michael Gibbons; Louise Dorhout-Ritsema of the board of Letterdyfe House; Emer Colleran UCG; Jackie Roberts (PA to Freda Rountree, The Heritage Council); Mary Cawley; Thomas Kilroy; Timothy Collins UCG; Stephen Clancy; Ferdinando Zezza; Malcolm Coxall; Victor Westhoff; Siabh O'Neill of Earthwatch; Marianne ten Cate of the Corrib Conservation Centre; Shevawn Lynam of Wicklow; Liam Cashman; Éamonn de Buitléar; Anne Foyle of the Rosleague Manor Hotel; Micheline Sheehy Skeffington UCG; John Marshall; Anne Gallagher Marshall; Jane Smart of Plantlife; Professor Matthijs G C Schouten of the Foundation for Conservation of Irish Bogs The Netherlands; Erin (no surname given) enclosing a poem entitled "Conamara Chaos Region"; Michael D Higgins TD; Liam Lysaght; Rosemary Carr; Mary Banotti; Irene Lynch enclosing sonnet "Roundstone Bog"; the Irish Peatland Conservation Council; Lorette Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh; letter from Robert Jocelyn to Dr Noel Kirby Regional Manager of the Heritage Service at Connemara National Park; Éamonn Grennan (the author of a poem entitled 'Amphibian'); Cllr J J Mannion, Michael [ ] and Jim [ ].

Faxed correspondence from Áine Ní Dhubháin of Nuacht Theilifís na Gaeilge to Tim Robinson requesting an interview, and faxed correspondence from Catherine McMullin of An Taisce to Robert Jocelyn enclosing information on the 'Golf Wars' in Killarney, summarising the arguments made in each of the 3 wars, and enclosing a hand-drawn map (original of map also included).

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