Nobel prize winning poet Seamus Heaney has joined Hollywood actress Charlize Theron and artist Louis le Brocquy in the campaign against the M3 motorway.
The writer has donated a number of rare, signed works for sale at an auction which will also see a unique drawing of the Oscar winning actress sold off. Money raised will pay for experts to travel to a Unesco summit in Canada next month as they lobby the body to discuss the M3 near the archaeologically-rich Hill of Tara.
Vincent Salafia, head of the TaraWatch group, said Heaney wrote to him last week offering the work for auction. "We are honoured and inspired by Mr Heaney's patronage," Mr Salafia said, adding: "With Heaney and le Brocquy on board, and Aosdana supporting, we see this as the entire Irish arts community rowing in behind us."
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