Monday, 27-October-2025

After visiting the Jeanie Johnson, a tourist adventure that I hadn’t been to, I took my Mom and Steve to a tourist adventure that I’ve been to more times than I can reasonably count – The Old Library at Trinity, and the Book of Kells exhibition that’s connected to it.

At this point, there’s really not anything else I can add to this: It was just as beautiful as it always has been… and, frankly, just as “we’re in the middle of renovating” as it always has been.

… True story – when I visited in 2023, the Old Library looked exactly the same as it does today. And in 2023, they were telling us that they were about to close the Old Library for renovations “within the next month, to stay closed for at least two years”.

Well… they didn’t. And it’s not. But thankfully, that means we got to visit again!

And the views? Just as beautiful as they’ve always been.