Irish National Library and Natural History Museum

Dublin has a very rich literary history. Yeats, James Joyce, Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde all hail from Dublin. You can see the homes of some of these authors, albeit from the outside. Oscar Wilde's old home is now the American College in Dublin. 

One of the stops on the Dublin Hop on Hop off Bus tour, is the National Library. The building itself is so interesting to look at! I couldn't help playing with a toy camera effect on our little Canon.

View from the library across the car park.

The reading rooms are heavily guarded as are the reading rooms in Trinity College. There is an appreciation for books and learning and history and culture here. Just look at the effort that went into the design of the stair case at the National Library.

Stair Case National Library

Stained Glass Window with an author's name and picture.

The fireplace at the National Library ust leading into the Yeats exhibition was just so ornate and beautifully carved, I had to take a picture!

Michael Yeats Bust

Fireplace in foyer of Yeats Exhibition

Oscar Wilde's Home

The Natural History Museum was interesting to me, mostly because of the skeletons, of the extinct giant stags! They were huge! I can only imagine what it must have been like to see something like this alive!