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A library Square
The red-brick building
A Chapel Window
(known as 111 e Rubrics) on
the east side of Library
Square was built around
Museum Building 1700 and is the oldest
Completed in 1857, ltlis is surviving part of the college.
notable for its Venetian
A Examination Hall exterior, and its magnificent
multicolored hall and
double-domed roof.
Entrance
to the Old
library A Old library Campanile >-

Marble bust
Sphere within of the author
Sphere Jonathan Swift
This sculpture (1982) in the Old
was given to the library >-
college by its creator,
Arnaldo Pomodoro.

Berkeley library Building
(1967) by Paul Koralek

Douglas Hyde
Gallery SAMUEL BECKETT (1906-89)
This was built in Nobel prize winner Samuel Beckett was
the 1970s to house
Fellows' Square temporary art born at Foxrock, south of Dublin.
exhibitions. In 192 3, he entered Trinity, and
later graduated with a first in
modern I angu ages and a go I d
medal. He was also an avid
member of the college crick-
et team. Forsaking Ireland,
Beckett moved to France in
the early 1930s. Many of his
major works, such as Waiting
for Godot (1951), were written
in French, and later translated
by the author into English.
Samuel Beckett
Entrance from
Nassau Street

KEY DATES
1592 (, 1661 1689 1712-61 1793 1853 1987
~ Old library Trinity College is The medieval The college A building drive Religious The Campanile Restoration of
The library's main chamber, the splendid founded on the Book of Kells is is temporari~ results i'n the restrictions is erected and the Dining Hall,
Long Room (1732), measures 210 ft
site of All Hallows given to Trin~y turned into a creation of the on entry are becomes a damaged during
(64 m) It houses 200,000 antiquarian monastery. by the Bishop barracks. Old Library and abolished. symbol of a fire in 1984,
texts, marble busts of scholars, and of Meath. the Dining Hall. Trinity College. takes place.
Ireland's oldest harp.