Did you know it took up to 75 YEARS to finish this single book? 🤯📚

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:03]Oh, this picture's fascinating. Anyone know where this room is?

[00:00:06]>> That's actually the long room in Trinity Library. It's connected to the Book of Kells experience and it's only about 100 m from where it from where we are now.

[00:00:14]If you'd like to know a little more about Book of Kells, you can call in to us anytime at the Celtic Loft. But, since you're here now, I've a little more information for you.

[00:00:23]The Book of Kells is comprised of the four gospels from the New Testament of the Bible, illustrated and written out in Latin.

[00:00:30]A lot of scholars estimate that it was created in or around 800 AD, give or take a couple of years, and [snorts] there's some some out there that believe it could have taken as long as 75 years to complete the the manuscript.

[00:00:44]It's one of the oldest surviving manuscripts not only in Ireland, but in the rest of the world as well.

[00:00:50]If you want to learn any more, we'd be happy to help you out. Call in to us anytime on your on your next visit to Ireland at the Celtic Loft, just above the Car Gallery on Grafton Street.