“…It’s surely clear that to describe Dublin as a City of Literature would be like saying rain sometimes falls in Ireland”. – Joseph O’Connor – author of Star of the Sea
“He’d … settled into a life of Guinness, sarcasm and late, late nights, the kind of life that American academics think real Dubliners lead”.
– Joseph O’Connor – author of Star of the Sea
For a guided tour through the museum of books in Chester Beatty Library and more of my photos, please visit Klausbernd Vollmar and our bookfayries Siri and Selma. 🙂
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Thank you for sharing!
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You are very welcome, thanks for visiting!
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Hi Dina,
nice photos, thanks once again for sharing, I just visited Klausbernd and the bookfayries.
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Ha en fin advent!
Hilsen fra Svalbard
Per Magnus
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Det samme til deg du!
Ha en fin kveld.
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Hilsen Hanne
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Awesome! Thanks for sharing! – andelieya
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My pleasure! You’re new to me, I’m so glad you found the way to me..
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Absolutley stunning! I’m so happy you got special permission to take the wonderful pictures. Makes one really think!! Thanks 🙂
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Thank you, my dear Irish girl! I’m so happydappy myself… 🙂
Wishing you a relaxing evening.
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Amazing and interesting story and photos, thanks very much for posting this!
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Thank you for your kind words, Phil. Greetings to Florida!
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Love the photographs of the old books. PS: Have you read Joseph O’Connor’s “Star of the Sea Star” about a famine ship making the journey from Ireland to New York aboard hundreds of refugees?
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Dear Mary,
shame on me: NO! But now I have ordered it. Thank you ever so much for hinting this. 🙂
I found this too, now I’m really looking forward to reading taht book.
I went to the westcoast of Ireland with Joan in 2008, I was very often confronted with the great famine there. The vessel in Dublin ist not quite the sam, ist it.
Best regards
Dina
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Great value of these old books… Thank you so much for sharing, Dina!
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Thank you for visiting and following, dear Amy!
I love your blog.
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I visited Mr Vollmar and saw the beautiful book pictures. I think I would like to visit Ireland.
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Dina and me spent about a fortnight in Dublin and it was great! 🙂 But we didn`t see everything that was on our list. Dublin is really worthwhile visiting.
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So we have to go again, won’t we?
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Dear Rhythm,
Ireland are perfect for library dogs, just perfect!
Happy travelling.
Dina
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Your posts are always so well thought out and special, Dina: thank you for sharing.
Take care
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Thank yor Stefano. Your comments are just as well tasting as your wines and delicious food and gorgeous pictures.! 🙂
Take care yourself.
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This is an amazing post, stunning pictures and vivid quotes.
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Thank you Marilyn! It’s really appreciated.
Take care.
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wonderful like the story and pics
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Thak you. Very much so.
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Oh Dina, your photos are always stunning, but these ones you’ve been taking of libraries and books are special. You capture their soul!
(and I love how you took advantage to plug another trip back!)
Thanks so much for sharing these treasures.
Jennifer
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Schönes post, liebe Dina. Habe gerade deine Norfolkbilder auf Pxartix bewundert! 🙂
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oh wie schön, wenn sich das alte Buch öffnet, bin begeistert und dankbar, dass du eine Erlaubnis fürs photographieren bekommen hast
herzliche Grüße aus dem Schneewald Ulli
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The first book looks a lot like a box I have, that only pretends to be a book :-p
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I love old books and historic libraries. Your beautiful photographs capture warmth of the leather, I could almost feel it under my fingertips.
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Ooooh, ich hätte gern das Buch auf dem unteren Foto : )
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very well presented, it’s simple but you kept the essence. congratulations!
by the way, great shots! 😉
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“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers” (Charles W. Eliot)
Lovely shots… 🙂
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Dear Andrikken, ich liiiiebe deine Zitate, dieses kommt sofort in meiner Sammlung! I love your quotes, hhsssssh… I put them quiely into my little MacFeeairy and then I use them later, thank you. You have some very nice winterquotes on your blog, I surprised my Master with the last one, the one about the writers, this morning! 🙂 Did you notice that I pinched it? It didn’t hurt, did it?
Have a great day and visit me again sooooon, please! 🙂
Siri Bookfairy, Quotafairy
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#.siri buchfee
No it doesn’t hurt at all sharing things among us
and I’m sure that Charles W. Eliot agreed with me… 😉
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Das sind fantastische Bilder, die ich bereits gestern bewundert habe. Wie gern’ ich diese Bücher anfassen würde …
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Herzlichen Dank, liebe Sherry. Über deinen Besuch habe ich mich sehr gefreut!
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that book is amazing! thanks so much for sharing these treasures!
z
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You are very welcome, thank you ever so much for taking the time to visit and comment.
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Love
Dina
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Diese alten Bücher sind einfach großartig. So voller Geschichte und voller Geduld.
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Danke dir sehr für deinen Besuch.
Liebe Grüße!
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Wenn etwas das Leben beschwert, sollten es wenigstens diese Bücher sein. Diese Folianten sind die Einweckgläser der Geschichte.
Liebe Grüße
Achim
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Danke. Die 2 Sätze stehen jetzt in meinem Büchlein. Und ich habe ein Zitat für weitere Bilder. Ich bin hocherfreut! 🙂
Liebe Grüße nach Freiburg
Hanne
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Rot wird 🙂 Dankeschön
Herzlichen Gruß
Achim
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Dies steht ebenfalls in meinem Büchlein:
“Bilder sind die verlängerten Augen der Seele” – Achim Spengler, Rambling Brother
entnommen den Kommentarthread in
http://kbvollmarblog.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/dublins-fine-libraries-the-royal-irish-academy-and-cathach-books/#comments
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Da muss ich doch gleich mal googlen, ob das nicht schon irgendjemand irgendwann schon einmal gesagt hat *g
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Sissdu, iss doch fein wenn du mir die Arbeit abnimmst… Nee, traue ich dir allemal zu.
Auf eine gute Zusammenarbeit, es macht Spaß mit dir! 🙂
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Google hat keine Ergebnisse gebracht, nicht einmal meinen Satz, pöh 🙂 Die Zusammenarbeit werde ich morgen fortsetzen, promised. Aber jetzt rufen Dauenfedern, Schäfchen und Schlaf.
Gute Nacht
Achim
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Nice…I really feel like visiting Ireland and all the libraries out there…You have a great blog with amazing content in it 🙂 Following 🙂
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Super – I love old books as you can guess
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