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The exquisite, illuminated book of Kells on display in Trinity College is a work of art - created in 800 AD, seated on a plinth display behind bulletproof glass, its pages made of vellum, hand-drawn lettering in iron gall ink, colors imported from distant lands. The volumes represent the Gospels of the New Testament while the security and preservation (air exchange, filtering, climate control) are worth studying in themselves. On another part of the longroom, sits the 14th-15th century Brian Boru harp, part of the Irish coat of arms and the trade-mark for the Guinness stout.
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In the middle of Dublin, towards the end of Grafton Street, sits a fabulous piece of greenery called St. Stephen's green. In the middle of this greenery sits a statue of the Bengali poet laureate, Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore got his Nobel prize in literature, after the English translation of his Gitanjali was popularized by WB Yeats in the literary circles of London. "Though these translations from Rabindranath Tagore have stirred my blood as nothing has for years, I shall not know anything of his life, and of the movements of thought that have made them possible, if some Indian traveller will not tell me".
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