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A Green Field is a Blank Canvas... an opportunity for you to create something extraordinary
Late in 2006, an advertising hoarding appeared in Clondalkin, on the main access road to Dublin from the south, with the above inscription.
"A green field that would once have been universally recognised as a site of production and, at a later stage, widely seen as a site of consumption, was now viewed as a cipher, a blank, something useful notably in its capacity for 'development'."
On page 20 of the Winter 2009-Spring 2010 issue of Heritage Outlook Dr. Simon Burke discusses the controversial role of the mass media in relation to Irish attitudes to heritage.
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