Today we spent time in the neighborhoods surrounding Trinity College. On our walk there, we passed through the Temple Bar neighborhood where the famous Temple Bar is located.
Our destination was the Trinity College Library which holds the largest collection of manuscripts and printed books in Ireland. In addition, the library has a display of medieval gospel manuscripts including the Book of Kells, the Book of Armagh, and the book of Durrow. These are beautiful, lavishly decorated documents in Latin of the four gospels. The exhibit included an interesting description of the process of creating the vellum pages, the ink, and the book binding methods. The scribes and artists who produced these beautiful books in the early 9th century held an honored place in Irish history.
Another part of the library is called "The Long Room" which houses around 200,000 of Trinity Library's oldest books.
After our Trinity Library visit, we ate a lunch we had brought along with some "Trinity coffee" we bought.
We then headed over to the National Museum of Ireland where we looked at several exhibits including one on the "Viking Age" in Ireland from the first recorded Viking raid in 795 AD.
We're back at our apartment taking a breather before heading out again tonight.
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