<p><br> A Trinity College must-see, the Old Library houses the institution’s greatest treasure: the Book of Kells, a circa-A.D. 800 illuminated manuscript.</p>

Trinity College


A Trinity College must-see, the Old Library houses the institution’s greatest treasure: the Book of Kells, a circa-A.D. 800 illuminated manuscript.

Photograph by Fridmar Damm/SIME

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