library around south city centre

Pembroke library serves a catchment area centred on Ballsbridge, a residential area on Dublin's southside. 2 miles from the city centre and situated between Sandymount on the coast and Donnybrook inland....

The Long Room in Trinity College is the main chamber of the Old Library. Its name is self-evident as it is 65 metres long and it is home to about 200,000 of the library’s oldest books. In 1860 the architects Deane and Woodward raised the roof to allow for the construction of the present barrel-vaulted ceiling and gallery bookcases.
All down the length of the room you will find marble busts on each side of the room. This collection started in 1743 and has grown since, included in the col...

The National Library of Ireland was founded in 1877 and has associations with famous figures in Irish history and literature, including James Joyce and William Butler Yeats. From its foundation the Library has endeavoured to collect all material of Irish interest published through the ages and throughout the world. It is the legal deposit library for all works published in Ireland.

Today the Library's collection of books, manuscripts, prints and drawings, maps, photographs, newspaper...