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Detail of Long Room shelving Watercolour of Long Room before the roof was raised. The 65-metre-long (213 ft) main chamber of the Old Library, the Long Room, was built between 1712 and 1732 and houses 200,000 of the Library's oldest books. Initially, The Long Room had a flat ceiling, shelving for books only on the lower level, and an open gallery.
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The Trinity College harp, also known as "Brian Boru's harp", is a medieval musical instrument on display in the long room at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. It is an early Irish harp or wire-strung cláirseach .
To the south is the Old Library of the college, having been begun in 1712. [1] Constructed almost entirely from brick, with tall hexagonal chimneys, the buildings were designed as residences for the students of Trinity College. [citation needed] In 1840, three bays were removed from either end of the building.
Helen Shenton is Librarian and College Archivist at Trinity College Dublin. She has held that role at the Library of Trinity College Dublin since June 2014, [1] the first woman to do so since the University was founded in 1592. Prior to this she was Executive Director of Harvard Library, a
Also incorporating the Long Room, the Old Library receives 600,000 visitors per year, making it Dublin's third-most visited tourist destination. [73] [74] In the 18th century, the college received the Brian Boru harp, one of the three surviving medieval Gaelic harps, and a national symbol of Ireland, now housed in the library.
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The Long Room is at Lord's cricket ground, London. Long Room may also refer to: The main chamber of the Old Library in Trinity College Library, Dublin, Ireland; A section of Immigration Museum, Melbourne, Australia; A former name of the Members' Lounge at Parliament House, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia