The Long Room

    This is the very beautiful Long Room Library at Trinity College Dublin.

    Date: Circa 1885

    NLI Ref.: L_CAB_01200

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    1. ★

      artur sikora, Abaraphobia, patembois, Nuno's Photo Warehouse, and 300 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. artur sikora (16 months ago | reply)

      Love this one! what a space....

    3. National Library of Ireland on The Commons (16 months ago | reply)

      It is just gorgeous!

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    6. int0lerant (16 months ago | reply)

      Has hardly changed, add a few glass display cases in place of the reading desks and bob's you uncle! I love this room and would love to get access to the upper level for a few shots! One can dream!

    7. National Library of Ireland on The Commons (16 months ago | reply)

      And it's great to see it when it was in use as a reading room...

    8. patembois (16 months ago | reply)

      Diable ! On se sent tout petit !

    9. J.T. Ratcliff (16 months ago | reply)

      wonderful

    10. RETRO STU (16 months ago | reply)

      I love that distant haze - lends the place a certain atmosphere.

    11. Ale06 (16 months ago | reply)

      A mistic place indeed.

    12. Robert Lesti (16 months ago | reply)

      The hall of knowledge.

    13. carmencorderoolivares (16 months ago | reply)

      !Vaya biblioteca¡ si es larga si.

    14. HarborIndiana (16 months ago | reply)

      Thank you!

    15. Nick Stewart2 (16 months ago | reply)

      Utterly wonderful. There's some much I love about this! Thanks for sharing it with us. :-))

    16. National Library of Ireland on The Commons (16 months ago | reply)

      It's a pleasure, and thank you all for the comments...

    17. National Library of Ireland on The Commons (16 months ago | reply)

      You're more than welcome, Nick! :)

    18. perkinsy (16 months ago | reply)

      Wow!

      Note to architects - as well as being functionally efficient and easy to use, this person makes an effort to visit and use libraries which are beautiful spaces to be in. If I ever get to Dublin, this will definitely be on my list of places to visit!

    19. schmuela (16 months ago | reply)

      It's like Borges' infinite library...

    20. oaktree_brian_1976 (16 months ago | reply)

      Hello! Lo lo lo lo lo lo lo.....

    21. THE STUDIO - PS (16 months ago | reply)

      lovely and amazing

    22. Ismael Barrera - DIGISNAPSTUDIO (16 months ago | reply)

      Wow!

    23. National Library of Ireland on The Commons (16 months ago | reply)

      And you better visit us too, or I'll be very miffed! ;)

    24. National Library of Ireland on The Commons (16 months ago | reply)

      Meant to add this sooner. The Long Room was used as the Jedi Library in Star Wars...

    25. Cuddly Nutter (16 months ago | reply)

      A timeless view.

    26. richard39a (16 months ago | reply)

      Now that's what I call a library! Not one of the horrible, antiseptic, characterless and featureless places that seem to be trying to put you off reading for life we see nowadays.

    27. National Library of Ireland on The Commons (16 months ago | reply)

      It's interesting how strongly people feel about what a library should be and what it should look like...

    28. oaktree_brian_1976 (16 months ago | reply)

      I knew I saw it somewhere! Star Wars!

    29. Victor Walsh (16 months ago | reply)

      wow - how wonderful

    30. ^Callahan^ (16 months ago | reply)

      Excellent!!!!

    31. Maitê Rezende (16 months ago | reply)

      wow! amazing picture (:

    32. slimdandy (16 months ago | reply)

      The Man from Glenageary

      There once was a chap from Glenageary.
      Who worked on the Liverpool Ferry.
      But, in his spare time,
      Without reason or rhyme,
      walked tightrope in the Trinity Library.

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    37. 1920s Berlin Project (16 months ago | reply)

      To me this is what paradise looks like.
      I'd love to build a virtual 3D reconstruction of this so people could visit it online and walk around it, like I've done with 1920s Berlin.

    38. National Library of Ireland on The Commons (16 months ago | reply)

      You might like to see this then from Darren McLoughlin at Dublin Photo Tours. It's a 360 degree panorama of the Long Room...

    39. Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse (16 months ago | reply)

      OH MY GOD!
      I have a facebook album I call 'Paradise', full of pictures where you can lock me up for the rest of my life and I wouldn't mind.
      Deserted islands, beautiful old castles, tiny villages in the highlands... and the long room!
      Thank you for that link!
      Paradise indeed.

    40. National Library of Ireland on The Commons (16 months ago | reply)

      You're very welcome! :)

    41. madero-padova (15 months ago | reply)

      An old fascinating room, beautiful view.

    42. National Library of Ireland on The Commons (15 months ago | reply)

      It is really lovely!

    43. PhotoSenseDatum (15 months ago | reply)

      fantastic place!

    44. James Hanlon (14 months ago | reply)

      An incredible image!

    45. National Library of Ireland on The Commons (14 months ago | reply)

      Thank you.

    46. Rachel Hurdley (13 months ago | reply)

      I'm currently doing research on 'social space' on a university campus where libraries are being refurbished, and spankingly smart new ones built - I think yours is wonderful -why can't we have that, instead of blank white and glass, brightness and tinny mp3 'beats' everywhere? Give me dust, lovely old book smell, and the shuffle of papers anyday.

    47. blackflower80 (13 months ago | reply)

      Love it so many books to read endless.

    48. 志 2012 (13 months ago | reply)

      好令人向往的地方。

    49. Steven Schnoor (12 months ago | reply)

      Geez...

    50. Anuradha Nautiyal (12 months ago | reply)

      stunning shot .. superb

    51. schweissergott - not longer here anymore (12 months ago | reply)

      a w e s o m e ! ! !

    52. pinguin1961 (12 months ago | reply)

      Absolutly fantastic and beautiful!
      This picture is really an adventure for the eyes.

    53. National Library of Ireland on The Commons (12 months ago | reply)

      Thank you for the lovely compliment!

    54. Letícia Coelho © (11 months ago | reply)

      simplesmente perfeita !

    55. Elina Zaproudi~ I'm so buzy.. (11 months ago | reply)

      Wowwwww so excellent shot!! Amazing symmetry!!! I love it!!!

    56. anasoro (11 months ago | reply)

      Beautiful! I love the mystical illusion!

    57. victor98_2001 (5 months ago | reply)

      great shot

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