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September 26, 2005: A Stroll Through Dublin's Literary Legacy
"In Trinity College Library, the ninth century Book of Kells has been exhibited seven days a week since 1992, with full-color, wall-size enlargements of some pages.
Someone looking over my shoulder at the great manuscript murmured that it used to be kept "where you could see it close to." That had been in the college's Long Room, the study hall used by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), Thomas Moore (1779-1852) and Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878-1957), among other luminaries."
