Marsh's Library

This caged library, founded in 1701, is the real thing. Unlike Trinity College's Long Room, which is largely for show these days, Marsh's Library is still functioning. Its walls are lined with scholarly volumes, chiefly on theology, medicine, ancient history, maps, and Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and French literature. Wire cages, in which readers would be locked in with the more valuable tomes, still stand anachronistically. The interior -- a magnificent example of a 17th-century scholar's library -- has remained much the same for 3 centuries. The excellent collection of books by and about Jonathan Swift includes books with his editing comments in the margins. There's also an exhibition space that gets refreshed about once a year. Recent subjects have included "Beware the Jabberwock," a selection of 16th- and 17th-century books on the animal kingdom; and "Hippocrates Revived," covering the (often creepy) history of early medicine.

Marsh's Library is located in St Patrick's Close, Dublin, 8. To communicate or ask something with the place, the Phone number is +353 1 454 3511. You can get more information from their website: https://www.marshlibrary.ie/. The coordinates that you can use in navigation applications to get to find "Marsh's Library" quickly are 53.339160919189,-6.2713098526001