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The Book of Kells
Anne-Marie Diffley, Trinity College
Dublin 2
Dublin.
Phone:+353 1 608 2320
Description Irish history.  The Book of Kells contains a Latin text of the four gospels richly decorated by Irish monks around the year 800 AD. The greatest Irish work of art to survive from the middle ages, it has been in the library of Trinity College Dublin since the 1660s. The exhibition The Book of Kells.
Picturing the word places it in its historical and cultural context and compares its images and techniques to those in contemporary metalwork, bone, slate, stone and enamels. Much of the exhibition is an analysis of its animal and human ornament.
Such images are persistent and repetitive, but their meaning is remote for most observers today. A section of the exhibition is concerned with the physical processes involved in the creation of the Book of Kells: the manufacture of the calfskin it was written on, and the writing materials and pigments used. The exhibition culminates with the display of the Book of Kells itself in a specially designed Treasury.
The Long Room: The main chamber of the Old Library is the Long Room. At 65 metres long, it contains 200,000 of the Library's oldest books in oak book cases.
The Library Shop: A wide range of books, cards souvenirs and good high quality products related to the Book of Kells and Trinity College is available in the Library shop.
Ramped entrance
Disabled WC's
Guide dogs permitted
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