The Trinity College Library in Dublin

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Long Room © flickr.com - Nic McPhee/cc-by-sa-2.0

Long Room © flickr.com – Nic McPhee/cc-by-sa-2.0

The Trinity College Library, located at Trinity College, Dublin, is the largest library in Ireland. As a “copyright library”, it has legal deposit rights for material published in the Republic of Ireland; it is also the only Irish library to hold such rights for the United Kingdom.

The library is also the permanent home to the famous Book of Kells. Two of the four volumes are on public display, one opened to a major decorated page and the other to a typical page of text. The volumes and pages shown are regularly changed.

Trinity College Library © Patrick Theiner/cc-by-sa-3.0 Bookshelves in the Long Room - 'Words in leather and wood' © flickr.com - Nic McPhee/cc-by-sa-2.0 Long Room © flickr.com - Nic McPhee/cc-by-sa-2.0 Long Room © flickr.com - Nic McPhee/cc-by-sa-2.0
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Bookshelves in the Long Room - 'Words in leather and wood' © flickr.com - Nic McPhee/cc-by-sa-2.0
James Ussher (1625–56), Archbishop of Armagh, whose most important works were Veterum Epistolarum Hibernicarum Sylloge, published in 1632, and Brittanicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates, which appeared in 1639, left his valuable library, comprising several thousand printed books and manuscripts, to Trinity College, Dublin, and his complete works were published by that institution in twenty-four volumes.

The Library proper occupies several buildings, four of which are on the campus of Trinity College itself and another at St. James’s Hospital. Further materials are held in storage, either in closed access stacks on campus or at a book depository in the Dublin suburb of Santry.

Read more on The Old Library and the Book of Kells Exhibition, Trinity College Library Blog, Trinity College Library, Trinity College Library Shop and Wikipedia Trinity College Library. Photos by Wikipedia Commons.




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