Trinity College Dublin
Historic university library whose oak-shelved Long Room shelters a jewel-bright medieval gospel manuscript.
This guide to Trinity College Dublin centers on Easter Monday 1916, when the university's gate stood defended by only thirty-nine student cadets and a few soldiers home on leave, guarding thirty-seven acres of grounds and a fortune in silver and books. Nearby, rebels had already seized the General Post Office and Saint Stephen's Green, yet never turned toward Trinity's gate. You'll hear about Captain Ernest Alton's skeleton force on the rooftops, joined by soldiers on leave from as far as Australia and New Zealand, and the theories for why the rebels stayed away. It's a story of an accidental gap in a week that reshaped Irish history.
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