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The Book of Kells attracts thousands of visitors each year. On display in Trinity College Dublin, the elaborately illuminated pages have survived the ravages of time.

The life and works of Yeats, Behan, Wilde, Shaw and many other literary greats, plus the Book of Kells, can be visited in Dublin, starting with Trinity College.

Inexpensive places to stay aren't always easy to come by in Europe's capital cities, but here are some recommended cheap hotels and other options in Dublin, Ireland

Discovering Dublin is easy. It's small enough to walk around and is steeped in history and also loaded with contemporary culture.Temple Bar great for night life an music.

Art history guide 30,000 Years of Art, with beautiful presentation of art by historical timeline, includes these sacred artifacts from the 9th century.

Check out the trailer and website for Cartoon Saloon/Buena Vista International's The Secret of Kells, featuring Brendan Gleeson and Evan McGuire.

Dublin offers the historic and the contemporary: 8thc. Book of Kells at Trinity College, a concert by rock band U2, Bewley's 19th-c. coffee house or trendy Temple Bar.

Dublin city is small and compact by European standards, making it the ideal city to navigate by foot and enjoy on a short weekend break.

Letters of early-19th-century Korean Choson Dynasty art screen resemble medieval historiated initials of illuminated manuscripts in their similar symbolic embellishments.

An illustrated prayer book or Bible was one of the most rare and valuable possessions a medieval person could own.

From Glendalough to the Mountains of Mourne, from Cashel to Achill Island, from Croagh Patrick to the Giant's Causeway, H.V.Morton's travel book on Ireland has it all.

Temple Bar, Guinness Brewery, St. Stephen's Green, Tattoos - Dublin, Ireland is a city of entertainment, where the old and the new live comfortably side by side.

Fiction from Tom Purdom, Chris Willrich & Eric Brown, James Patrick Kelly's silver jubilee story and columns from Robert Silverberg and editor Sheila Williams.

A few miles south of Athlone, in the very centre of Ireland, is one of the most important monastic sites in this land of saints and scholars.

The Triskele (from the Greek for three-legged) is an ancient pattern from Neolithic and Bronze-Age Celtic history with resonance in the modern world.

1000 Places to See Before You Die is a New York Times Number One Bestseller and offers a life list of 'must see' travel destinations. How do the UK and Ireland rate?

The largest hoard of Anglo Saxon gold ever found has been discovered in a field in Staffordshire, north west England, by an amateur archaeologist with a metal detector.

The dream of every person with a metal detector is to find a stash of buried treasure; for Terry Herbert the dream has come true.