The Old Library was built in 1712. The library's main chamber is the Long Room filled with 200,000 old books. It is a legal deposit library. All publishers in Ireland must deposit a copy of all their publications there without charge.
The Long Room
The Book of Kells
(photo taken from Trinity College Dublin)
The Book of Leinster
The oldest manuscript in trinity's collection written entirely in Irish
It is an anthology of Irish prose, verse and genealogy
The Brian Boru Harp (14th century)
The oldest surviving harp in Ireland
Gaia
Gaia is a detailed NASA imagery of the earth's surface
Gaia mimic the rotation of the Earth
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