Kommt man aus dem Mittelalter zurück, steht man vor einem Betonneubau für noch mehr Bücher, welcher von Ferne eine gewisse Ähnlichkeit mit den Zinnen eines Wachturms hat - eine Trutzburg zum Schutz der Weisheit.
Auch hier gab es viel Grün, der Rasen und die Trikots der Rugby-Mannschaften, große Plätze, Blumenrabatten, eine Plastik von Moore und eine Skulptur, die unsere Welt von innen zeigt...
Anmerkung: Fotografieren war in der Bibliothek nicht erlaubt, die Bilder stammen aus dem www.
Studying in Dublin seems to be a snugly thing, that was my impression when I entered the campus: simply beautiful. Ireland´s elite university was founded by Queen Elisabeth I. at the area of an dissolved Augustinian Cloister, for 200 years were only protestant students allowed ( intellectual elite of the land? Oh, yes!), from 1873 catholics were permit to get an academic graduation, and in 1903, that hit like a bombshell, were women allowed to study here (did someone checked out, if the intellectual level was rising since that time?). Today everyone can study here and there for a big library is needed: And they do have one, the biggest in the whole country, over 4 million volumes and for a small contribution of € 9,- I could see one of the oldest and the most important book of the Christendom: the "Book of Kells". Wonderful paintings and interesting insights in the art of writing and painting of anchient book. After that I visited the Old Library, a treasure house for old books, well organized in meter high shelfs over two floors, every shelfs with a moveable ladder, ordered by A, Aa, aa, B, Ba, and so on, here do live the 200 000 oldest books of the library and over the years they become more and more, so the roof must have lifted up in 1860 to enlarge the shelfs and in this way the barral vault come into being.
If you come back from the middle age, there is a concrete building for even more books and from far it looks a bit like the crenellations of a watch tower - a castle for the wisdom.
There was a lot of green too, the lawn and the shirts of the rugby teams, large squares, border of flowers, a plastic from Moore and a sculpture, wich shows the inner of the earth....
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