Grafton Street & Around - Dublin - page 105

On the far east of Library Sq, the red-brick Rubrics Building MAP GOOGLE MAP dates from
around 1690, making it the oldest building in the college. Extensively altered in an 1894
restoration, it underwent serious structural modification in the 1970s.
If you are following the less studious-looking throng, you'll find yourself drawn south
of Library Sq to the Old Library MAP GOOGLE MAP (Library Sq) , home to Trinity's prize
possession and biggest crowd-puller, the astonishingly beautiful Book of Kells .
Upstairs is the highlight of Thomas Burgh's building, the magnificent 65m Long Room
MAP GOOGLE MAP (East Pavilion, Library Colonnades; adult/student/child €9/8/free; 9.30am-5pm Mon-
Sat year-round, noon-4.30pm Sun Oct-Apr, 9.30am-4.30pm Sun May-Sep) with its barrel-vaulted ceiling.
It's lined with shelves containing 200,000 of the library's oldest manuscripts, busts of
scholars, a 14th-century harp and an original copy of the Proclamation of the Irish Repub-
lic.