“Now, I have a story for you…” is a greeting as universal as one of the greatest literary cities in the world, like “Hello”, lyrical storytelling is as important as today’s traditions Dracula Or WB Yeat his Nobel Prize-winning poetry. The heart of the city is Trinity College, Stoke, Yeats and Oscar Wilde studied, the troubled young man (from her best-selling novel) by contemporary writer Sally Rooney (from her best-selling novel). Ordinary people) Spring is easy to come to life. The highlight of visit here is the 213-foot-long room in the old library, which boasts 200,000 books (although it remains impressive under a long restoration) and is lined with marble busts, including Dublin native Jonathan Swift, one of Ireland’s most influential writers. Not to be missed is the new book of Kells Experience, home to the manuscript created by monks at 800ce. Despite its long-standing origins, the text and illustrations look fresh, and the exhibition that comes with it is magical, bringing the script to life.
A shelved treasure
Marsh’s is Ireland’s oldest library, crashing into floor-standing oak bookshelfs with more than 300 years of history, and a row of unusual research cages. Each has a separate table and chair that is used by scholars and surrounds rare, valuable manuscripts that are considered precious rather than locked and keyed.
The Irish Literature Museum is in St. Stephen Green, which was once a private mansion in Georgia. The awards in its collection are Joyce’s letters and notebooks, but many other Irish writers are celebrated, from Booker Prizes – Champion Anne Enwright to National Treasure Edna O’Brien and the Nobel Prizes – winning poet and playwright seamus seamus heaney, who lived in Dublin for 40 years. To understand the past struggles of Irish writers expressed in free culture, you just need to read the “blacklist” formulated by the Evil Literature Commission in 1926, which includes such Sports Time and Women’s Weekly In its long list of corruption issues.
In a city full of bookstores, Ulysses rare books are one of the most interesting books, and if you ask well, they will ask in a limited edition like Joyce Ulysses Illustration by Henri Matisse, signed by the author and artist and sold for €25,000 ($27,045). The story comes after Joyce discovers that Matisse has not read his heavy books, and the men fall down. For a more friendly choice for Ireland-centric books, head to nearby shop Hodges Figgis or Dublin’s oldest independent bookstore, winding stairs, located on the north side of the river Liffey. The James Joyce Center is also this side of the water, with Joycean enthusiasts flocking to the famous Eccles Street gates, Leopold and Molly Bloom.
Kate Wickers
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