First Look: Inside Trinity College Dublin’s immersive new Book of Kells Experience

Inside Trinity's new Book of Kells Experience. Photo: Zoe Ardiff

Pól Ó Conghaile

I’ve just touched the Book of Kells. I couldn’t resist. As I did, its illustrations pinged off my hands. Beautiful pages dissolved beneath my fingers.

Needless to say, it’s not the original. That priceless manuscript sits inside a thick cube of security glass in the Old Library of Trinity College, Dublin.