Excellent Museum

We visited the Chester Beatty Library, housed right behind Dublin Castle. Chester was an American mining magnate that retired in Ireland and willed his extensive collection of ancient manuscripts to the nation.

Trinity College houses the Book of Kells, probably the best known illuminated manuscript in the world, but the tour to see it is expensive and crowded, and they only display one page of text and one major illustration each day.

The Beatty, however, has a wide variety of illuminated bibles, Qu'rans, Torah, and other ancient texts on display that you can wander around in for hours. And it's free. Even the kids found it interesting.

Sadly, they don't allow photography inside, but here we are standing outside.

All the tours of Dublin Castle were booked, but the kids ran the labyrinth.