Dublin has been one of my favorite adventures thus far here in Europe. The city is rich in history and the people are super friendly.
Our first Day (evening in Dublin) we walked about the city and took a tour to get a focus on where we wanted to go…
Stop number three on the city tour was Trinity College, Upon realizing that indeed Trinity College was on the tour I quickly told the 6 other people in our group that the next morning Trinity College would be stop number one for us to tour. To my surprise everyone else wanted to go there as well so I was relieved to not be monopolizing their time with my wants.
On day two we made our way to the city center and boarded the bus to Trinity college. I was excited to get to go and see “the Book of Kells” Yes that’s right the Book of Kells!!!
I could hardly contain myself. We wondered the yards of Trinity College as any good tourist would and eventually found ourselves at the Old Library where the book is housed. As we made our way in we heard a bit of rumbling from people about the book not being on display. We found the rumblings to be true, apparently there was an issue with the display case for the Book of Kells and sadly it could not be safely kept on display at this time. They however were offering in its place an artist’s copy of the book. We choose not to see the artist copy.
I did however buy something most wonderful at the Trinity College Library, A DVD-ROM copy of all 340 folios of the manuscript. The DVD-ROM is the first digitized version of the Book of Kells to have been authorized by Trinity College. I was very excited to find this.
“I am going to mail (loan) my copy of the DVD-ROM to
mrq_laurellen so that she can share it will you all, in what ever fashion she deems most approriate. Maybe a class on the styles used or something of the sort.
mrq_laurellen would you please write me off the list so I can arrange this with you!
From Trinity College we made our way to Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. Wow is all I can say. I’ll post pictures in the next couple of days as it was truly worth the visit and the history was such a rich tapestry. I never wanted to leave the Cathedral, every corner I turned was something new to explore/ learn about.
More to come…
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