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020			_a9781908308245 _qpaperback
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049			_aCARIBET
050	0	0	_aGN776.22.I73 _bM877 2012
082	0	0	_2936.182201
100	1		_aMurphy, Anthony _c(Journalist) _9256547
245	1	0	_aNewgrange : _bmonument to immortality. / _cAnthony Murphy. _htxt
264		1	_aDublin, Ireland : _bThe Liffey Press , _c2012.
300			_axi, 276 p. _bcolor ill. ; _c24 cm. _fbook
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediaded _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
500			_aInclude index.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 257-272)
505			_aContents : Preface vii -- Acknowledgements x -- 1. Connections 1 -- 2. Stone and Bone 19 -- 3. Community Effort 39 -- 4. Sun, Moon & Star 57 -- 5. Vallancey and the Armed Kind 81 -- 6. The Test of Time 99 -- 7. Tomb or Womb 117 -- 8. Towards the Light 133 -- 9. Cave Myths 149 -- 10. The Divine Child 167 -- 11. Inside the Chamber of Light 185 -- 12. What Came after Newgrange? 205 -- 13. What Have We Lost? 223 -- 14. How Can We Go Back? 239 -- Endnotes 257 -- Index 274 --
520			_aMany people who visit the ancient and magnificent Newgrange monument in the Boyne Valley are driven by some deep longing to connect with their most distant roots. The giant 5,000-year-old megalithic construction evokes awe and wonderment, and a keen sense of melancholy for the community of people who created and fashioned it from stone and earth in the remote past, a people now lost to time. For the past two centuries, archaeologists, antiquarians, writers and researchers have been probing Newgrange in the hope of revealing something about its purpose, and something about the mysterious people of the New Stone Age who created giant structures using primitive technology. What has become clear from these investigations is that Newgrange is a uniquely special place, and that its construction was carried out not by a grizzly mob of grunting barbarians, but rather by an advanced agrarian community who had developed keen skills in the sciences of astronomy, engineering and architecture. In "Newgrange: Monument to Immortality", writer and researcher Anthony Murphy goes deep into the mind and soul of his Neolithic ancestors to attempt to draw forth some answers to these questions. In a deeply moving, poetic and philosophical exploration, he looks beyond the archaeology and the astronomy to reveal a much more profound and sacred vision of the very spirit of the people who were driven to such marvellous and wondrous efforts --
650		0	_aIreland _xNewgrange Site. _9116005 _2Local
650		0	_aAntiquities , Prehistoric _xNewgrange Site _953363 _zIreland
650		0	_aPassage Graves culture _9301697 _zIreland _zBoyne River Valley.
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