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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
College Green.
Map D3.
Tel 896 1000.
∑ tcd.ie/library
Long Room and Old Library:
Open 9:30am–5pm Mon–Sat,
9:30am–4:30pm Sun (May–Sep),
noon–4:30pm Sun (Oct–Apr).
Closed 10 days at Christmas.
Library Square & ^ 7 8 by arrangement.
The red-brick building (known as the Rubrics) on the east side Chapel: Open by appt.
of Library Square was built around 1700 and is the oldest Douglas Hyde Gallery:
surviving part of the college.
Open for exhibitions.
Shop and entrance Transport
to Old Library £ DART to Pearse Street. @ 10,
14, 15, 46 & many other routes.

New Square

. Old Library
Fellows’ Square This detail is from the
Book of Durrow, one of
the other magnificent
illuminated manuscripts
housed in the Old Library
along with the celebrated
Book of Kells (see p68).

Samuel Beckett (1906–89)
Nobel Prize-winner Samuel Beckett
was born at Foxrock, south of
Dublin. In 1923 he entered Trinity,
Entrance from and later grad uated with a first in
Nassau Street modern languages and a gold
medal. He was also a keen member
of the college cricket team.
. Long Room Forsaking Ireland, Beckett
(1732) moved to France in the
The spectacular Long early 1930s. Many of
Room measures 64 m his major works such
(210 ft) from end to as Waiting for Godot
end. It houses 200,000 (1951) were written
antiquarian texts, first in French, and
marble busts of later translated,
scholars and the by Beckett,
oldest surviving into English.
harp in Ireland.

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