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Jun5

Another view of the old library

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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.

Mar6

The Book of Kells

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Sunday, 03-Nov-2024

Similarly to the Guinness tour, I’ve already done the book of Kells tour. It was on my list the first time I visited Dublin – back in 2023, checking the city out to see if it’d be a good spot to rest my head for a year of MBA adventure.

Well, it’s been a bit over a year, and Trinity’s redone the Book of Kells experience. Brian’s visiting, I can get in for free now since I’m a student…

So we went.

Brian and I explored, read about the book and how it was made, checked out the book. Basically all the things about the Book of Kells that I remembered from the last time. We walked through to check out the old Library, and… Whoa.

That’s when we set into the new bits – a huge globe art installation in the Old Library. An amazing immersive video about how the Book of Kells made its way to Ireland. A whole interactive scene about the building of the library… Definitely worth the second visit.