3 Ways to Fall in Love With Dublin

Alyssa Hollingsworth | February 8, 2016

1. Trinity College Library Cont’d

I went to Trinity College Library on a cold February morning in the middle of the week, and practically had the exhibition to myself. The first room you enter contains information about the monks thought to have created the book, and other history for important works and events of the time. If you’re crazy like me, you could easily spend an hour in this room alone, but I think most people just wander straight through.

The Book of Kells itself is kept in a dark room under glass. There are four volumes altogether laid open for you to look at, and if you can you should linger here. The art comes alive the longer you look. Again, I had the room to myself (well, me and the security guard), and I spent a long while with my nose inches from the glass.

Kate. Get the picture.

As you leave the dark room, feeling perhaps a little sad that it’s over, you ascend a staircase and walk past a restoration room. Normally the expert restorers are at work, and you can watch them working on books. Go through the grand doorway, and suddenly you’ll be in Trinity College Library itself. Beware: You might cry a little.

The library holds a cathedral-like silent grandeur. It is absolutely stunning. This is where I first began to fall for Dublin.

(If you’re a Star Wars fan, you will have already seen a library that looks suspiciously familiar. But you have to go on Sandeman’s tour to find out the hilarious story behind that connection.)

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