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Also incorporating the Long Room, the Old Library is one of Ireland's biggest tourist attractions and holds thousands of rare, and in many cases very early, volumes. 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, which is now housed in the Library.
However, importing this book and its sale second-hand are still legal. There are instances of books which were at one time banned in Ireland subsequently not only having the ban overturned but the books in question becoming required reading on the Leaving Certificate syllabus, e.g., Salinger's Catcher in the Rye (banned in October 1951). [4]
A store of used books in Madrid A second-hand book store in the United States. Used bookstores (usually called "second-hand bookshops" in Great Britain [1]) buy and sell used books and out-of-print books. A range of titles is available in used bookstores, including in print and out-of-print books. Book collectors tend to frequent used book stores.
One enraged parent brought the book to the attention of Carol Nolan, a member of the Irish Parliament, who upon reading it, said: “How this trash and drivel ever made its way into a curriculum ...
Oxfam bookshop on Nicolson Street, Edinburgh Oxfam is the largest retailer of second-hand books in Europe, selling around 12 million per year. Most of Oxfam's 600 charity shops around the UK sell books, and around 100 are specialist bookshops or book and music shops.
It avails of publisher's overstock to provide new books at a reduced price. [citation needed] It also sources books from university presses and foreign publishers to provide titles not otherwise often found in Irish bookshops. It typically only sells new full-priced books if the writer is local, or if the topic relates to Ireland. [5]
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Dublin, National Library of Ireland G 4 (olim Phillips MS 8214) 1391 Fragment which previously belonged to the core of the Yellow Book of Lecan. [1] Dublin, National Library of Ireland G 7 16th century [1] Dublin, National Library of Ireland G 8 (olim Phillips MS 9750) Book of Éumann Ó Bolgaoi 16th century Medical manuscript on paper and ...