- Follow me on my visual and written Gothic adventures through Dublin as I explore a 300 year old haunted Marsh's Library, a crypt, and an invisible graveyard.
- Marsh's Library is a perfectly preserved building of the late Renaissance and early Enlightenment. It has changed little in 300 years.
- Learn how Ireland's oldest public library came to be and uncover the household names who studied there with our history of Marsh's Library, Dublin.
- Though visitors tend to flock to see the Book of Kells, less make the journey down to Marsh’s Library, the atmospheric home to nearly 25,000 rare books.
- Today I visited Marsh's Library, the oldest public library in Dublin dating to 1701, located adjacent to St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
- This often-forgotten refuge, which at first glance appears to be no more than an old library, is home to more than simply sloping shelves and leather-bound books.
- Founded by the wonderfully named Narcissus Marsh, the Archbishop of Dublin, in 1701, this library is still much today as it was in the archbishop’s time.
- Marsh’s Library is situated right beside St. Patrick’s Cathedral and is home to over 25,000 rare and fascinating books and manuscripts.
- Opening in 1707 Marsh’s Library was the first ever public library in Ireland. However that’s not the library’s only claim to fame.
- When it first opened in 1707 it was the first public library in Ireland. The interior of Marsh’s Library has remained largely unchanged since that time.