American Reacts to The Book of Kells & Old Library Trinity College Dublin
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- In this video I react to the Book of Kells and the library at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. What an amazing piece of history the Book of Kells is. The artwork is so detailed and it boggles the mind when you realize this ancient book was created over 1200 years ago by kids!
As for the old library, it's a beautiful place. I love the look of the "long room" with its dark wood and rounded ceiling. I definitely hope to get a tour of the Trinity College library and to see the Book of Kells in person when I finally visit Ireland.
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My daughter got her masters in trinity last year. It’s a really great place to walk around and so much to see and learn. So historic.
The Harp was a symbol of the resistance to the Crown of England in the distant past, so much so it was banned at the end of the medieval period. The fact this harp was kept all that time and can be seen by everyone now is very special.
Brian Boru harp - named after the ancient high king over all Ireland
Watching you learn about British and Irish culture is a joy.
I have watched many American RUclipsrs doing this, and they just come across as stupid and ignorant.
You are the polar opposite. You are happy to learn, and we are happy to learn along with you.
More of the same please.
Thanks so much for joining me. It's been a lot of fun learning. I appreciate your kind words.
British an Irish are totally different get this on board
@@davidgomm6043 Yes, they are different which is why I'm learning about both aspects of my ancestry.
@@reactingtomyroots all I'm saying is you can't be both if you're forefathers was born in Ireland they are Irish if you're forefathers was born in England they are English
@@davidgomm6043 My genetics are half English and half Irish. Therefore, I'm half British and half Irish ancestry. Why would I discount half my ancestry?
Some years back, about a dozen facsimile copies of the Book of Kells were made. These matched the Book precisely down to the marks on the vellum. A prof at my university(University of British Columbia) was involved in the project and we have one of the facsimiles housed in a specially made oak case. It is a beautiful work in all aspects.
I remember my Dad taking me to join the local library when I was about 5 or 6.
The smell of books and the shelves towering over me remains a magical memory.🇬🇧
Ps. You have an amazing speaking voice. Dead jealous.😏
Thank you Steve. I appreciate that. I'm just glad people can understand my accent. LOL
Ireland had its golden age in terms of art for about 400 years before the vikings arived and made many manuscripts and cermonial items alot of books where probably burned by the vikings but fortuntly some did survive.
That was the trouble with those nors types very insensitive lol😊
Vikings were mercenaries sent from Rome along with britain
Your wife would probably love the Bodlian Library, in Oxford, built in 16th Century; the do tours & the British Library in London, containing 400 miles of shelves & housing the Mangna Carta, aswell as this one. I've always loved books & was taking to the Children's Library from little & am with you on the smell of books!
Yes Oxford is the best. but it's my home city so I might say that
Ireland was the most advanced country in Europe until the English plundered it ,India was the richest country in Asia until the British blundered it , but we are recovering today.
@@John316OBrian-cm4fj where you you get your information from you clown 🤡
I visited the trinity college library this time last year and I can tell you a video does not do it justice. It is awe inspiring to see in person. I spent over half an hour in the long room alone.
Wow OVER half an hour. You must have been exhausted. Dumb dumb
The Book of Kells was created on calf vellum, which is extremely durable and long lasting. UK acts of parliament still use this medium.
I suggest taking a look at the Magna Carta which was signed at Runnymede near Windsor in 1215. That was a fascinating video and quite a contrast to the one on cheese rolling.
Interestingly, the Book of Kells isn't the oldest surviving book in Ireland. The Psalter of Saint Columba (a similar type of religious text) is believed to have been written some time between 550 and 600AD. It is currently in the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin.
That’s interesting, I haven’t heard of the book or the Royal Irish Academy. I’ll check that out.
@@bcent5758 Here are some more ancient Irish books to check out - most in the Royal Irish Academy: Lebor na hUidhre (Book of the Dun Cow-oldest book of legends), Book of Leinster, Book of Ballymote, Book of Lismore, An Cathach (the psalter mentioned above) which is Ireland's oldest book (and a war was fought over it), Book of Durrow, Book of the Brehon Laws, Annals of Innisfallen, Annals of the Four Masters, Book of Armagh. All dating between 6th and 15th centuries.
@@Granuaile1 Thanks for sharing
If you like the Book of Kells check out the Lindisfarne Gospel.
I visited this incredible exhibition 5 years ago. I was practically speechless. Then I walked upstairs and the library up there rendered speech impossible. The smell of the books was my favourite part.
The teenage monks would make a suitable subject for a youth TV drama.
I understand that cave paintings where also done by young and talented artists back in the Palaeolithic, they developed their skills, and food was hunted for them by the wider community.
It was most likely written by young monks who were apprentice scribes, honing their skills while focusing their minds. Urine would have been used in proessing the calf skin also. I had the pleasure of visiting Trinity and it's truly a stunning and unforgettable experience.
People used to sell there urine.if you were poor they would say you were piss poor because u were selling it..and if u were really poor they would say you hadn't even got a pot to piss in.
I really enjoy these sessions with you... learning things myself as I go along!
Brilliant review - thank you for sharing, although I had heard of the Book and probably seen images I didn't know how young the monks were.
I studied the script in the Book of Kells in my calligraphy courses. It's called Insular Majuscules and I loved writing it. A calligrapher here usually studies the art of beautiful writing and illuminated lettering full time for three years at college. We do not call someone who uses cursive script with flourishes a professional calligrapher. I just dabbled in calligraphy.
If you want to go trinity college library you will probably need to book a head before you leave the states,because its one of the biggest tourist attractions in dublin and ireland and righty so.Just keep that in mind
Are you a Star Wars fan, Steve? In 'Attack of the Clones' (2002), the Jedi Archives are modelled on Trinity's Long Room Library. The university considered legal action against Lucasfilm for not getting explicit permission to use its likeness. This wasn't pursued due to the increase in tourism and applications to the university as a result of the film's success.
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I can remember when I was just seven years of age and had just graduated to reading adult books in school that is "proper books" ones without pictures on each page, and I felt so grown up. My wonderful Dad who also appreciated the wonder of books took me up to our local library and joined me to them, I used to look at the books in the children's/teenager's section and pick out my five for the next three weeks loan, and I used to look at the adult section and wonder what wonderful books were over there for me to explore when I was all grown up. That love of books has never left me, I can on a good week read between 2-3 books. On average I try to read approximately 100 pages each day.
The first examples of 'Insular' knotwork were a fusion of the fabulous beasts of Scythian jewellery with Roman mosaic patterns. From Denmark (the Angle homeland) the artform spread into Scandinavia, Britain and Ireland, & Gospels produced in this style wove together forms developed in those disparate cultures. Lindisfarne's Gospel is notable for containing (between the Latin lines & in the margins) the first English translation of the Bible.
Trinity College Library is still one of the 6 ‘law’ libraries in the UK; this means that by law a copy of all books published in the UK must’ve sent there. The others are the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales, the British Library and the university libraries of Oxford and Cambridge.
didn't know that - thanks for the info :)
Julia Rabbitts Thats very strange,it was probably a law that was made before independence and nobody bothered to change it.
@zuppymac It’s not you that’s confused. Apparently a bloody war and a century of independence isn’t sufficient to not be included in the UK for some people.
UK ??😂😂 Learn ur history
The "law libraries" also recieve all scientific papers and graduate thesis
I live 20 mins away walk .my sister works in trinity. I must go have a look. I havent seen it since school
Most people don't have the king James Bible. That's an English, protestant translation. The book of kells is a Catholic manuscript.
Mpat homes do not have any type of Bible never mind any othe type of books. Rhere was a survey done some years ago.
@@veronicawilliams7427 look at the damage the Catholic Church did to the people of ireland ... we lived under the iron fist of the church right up until the late 80s early 90s
The moment you walk into the old library and smell those old pages it transports you to another world.
Point of note, snakes are not found in Ireland. Regarding the age of illustrators, back then 18 was not childhood. Children were just young adults. Childhood didn't become a thing until 19th century , Children were put to work as soon as possible. Education was not universal but something that evolved over time. Education was a bit hit and miss with much reliant on benefactors.
In a world without spectacles or magnifying glasses, it was _only_ the young who had the eyesight and the steadiness of hand to do such intricate work.
You can actually buy a hardback facsimile (produced on glossy, solid paper) of the book of Kells, and enjoy it in your own home. I totally recommend it.
As for beautiful libraries, and other learning spaces, you should have a look at the historic colleges in Oxford and Cambridge, just as an FYI to our American friends
I’m really glad you watch these videos because it isn’t something I would choose. But I really love your content, so I’m learning too 😁
Thanks Katy. That's awesome. :)
there's a website with photography of the whole book of kells
I just want to say you have great delivery and it's great to learn with you. Great video.
I wonder if Steve will show this video to his lovely and quite joyous second pea in his pod :) Lindsay I think she would find it fascinatung.
The Book of Kells. There is an English rival; the Lindisfarne Gospels are as glorious and may have been started on Iona too. They are in the British Library.
The Book of Kells may have been illumined by eighteen-year olds, but I disagree with the statement that eighteen was middle-aged. Once you were past childhood, people in those days could live to quite an age, although the Royal families of Wessex and Denmark tended to die young.
I know the Lindisfarne Gospels are a copy of the Gospels in the Vulgate, so the Book of Kells may be too. (The Vulgate is the major translation into Latin, from the Greek, translated by St Jerome, used by the Roman Catholic Church.) The Lindisfarne Gospels also gave an Old English translation of the Latin.
The nearest library in atmosphere to Trinity College's are parts of the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
Also it’s not like people got old earlier. A little bit yes due to the harsh life, but the low expectancy mainly means that a lot of them died while still young. I think a 18 year old would have been considered a young adult, but for sure not middle aged.
My favourite of your videos. Stunning and beautiful. Your comments are so thoughtful.
Thank you Pat.
This gives me the chills.
Steve please look at Pantomime..it will blow your mind. Look for Belgrade Theater Panto for an explanation. It's only in the UK
From someone whose surname was KELL its really interesting the hear what you had to say about the Book and Trinity College.
4:01 All the places it was in were protected places like libraries.
Librarians have improved the registers of books pretty recently (Dewey), and changed some routines in response to paper replacing parchment.
But most of what librarians do now, they did then.
Hello there, Steve. You might also enjoy discovering other very significant early-mediaeval manuscripts in Britain, of which the most famous and glamorous is probably the Lindisfarne Gospels associated with St Cuthbert. But if you explore the websites of the other major ancient or national libraries - the Bodleian in Oxford, Cambridge university library, the British Library, the National Library of Wales and national Library of Scotland - you will find lots of fascinating examples of these thrilling mediaeval literary treasures.
Trinity college library is in Dublin ireland 🇮🇪 not in the uk.
Iff the library looks kind of familiar, it was the inspiration for the Jedi temple library in Star Wars.
My dad had to transport this... I've had it in our car lol
Lrish culture is never ending its amazing for many people around the world
4:51 As to these "little notes to each other" they are technically called colophons.
And they might less be concerned with chatting with the next at the task than with simply giving personal evidence of your personal presence at the work. Typically, they were made when you finished sth, and especially a whole book, but I imagine it is possible some "intermediate colophons" were made at ending a day's work.
That was something else.
Dál Riata or Dál Riada was the Celtic nation that stretch across northern Ireland and the West Coast of Scotland. They spoke but we would call today Hirberno Latin and Irish
It's older than America 😏 the history of our Islands is a long one. I hope that you are enjoying your journey finding your past. I love watching your reaction when you learn something new. I love our history there is so much interesting stuff.☮️🌹🇬🇧
I think she says it was written and probably illustrated in the island of Iona which is in Scotland it's in argyll
4:31 _"but in those days, 18 would have been considered middle aged"_
Totally a factoid.
Whether the book was made by mostly young monks or not, I don't know, that could be from routines that were recorded back then. But normal lifespan ending at or before 36 - nope.
Much of what goes into low medium lifespans are estimates of a very high child mortality - which arguably lowers life expectancy at birth.
It doesn't mean a person who already survived the early years would at 18 then correspond to a person of 54 now.
If he had made it to 18, he had excellent chances to live to 66 and not totally slim chances to live to 99.
Plus the issue of how the child mortality in 9th C. Ireland is assessed by scholars now is a more intriguing than intellectually reassuring one.
She shows how some parts of the British intellectual élites have been steeped into cultural Marxism, which among other things in the mainstream East Block version involves "Middle Ages were so dirty, so sick, they died so young" .... nope.
It would be fun if you could react to some sort of animal video about the British isles. Learning about the native wildlife would be interesting.
The monks in kells county meath would have guarded the book with their lives ,in fact it was probably safer than in trinity ,so its not true in anyway to say it was 800 years without being protected until it was removed to Trinity college.
You should check out "The Secret of Kells" 2D animation movie it has lore in there with really impressive hand drawn visuals and soundtrack. It is utterly amazing to watch.
My ancestor took a Degree at Trintity College in 1734. and it has been verified for me and also for one other decendant., The Monks wrote it and it was in actyak use ub 1734, my Ancestor was tutored by a private tutor. and niot at a school.
It's the scane goarge done in star wars jedi temple
Great video, who doesn't love libraries! I hope you do more videos of old libraries, with incredible old books!!
4:39 _"good eyesight"_ is a point.
Once you develop certain eye conditions like myopia or things, that art work becomes impossible. But I don't see why this could not apply to some of 30 or even 50 as well as nearly all at 18.
I assume the book contains the Latin translation by St. Jerome
Its just one book from Irish civilisation, can you imagine (and is documented) the books the English empire destroyed and stole.
also should look into the Lindisfarne gospels...from a similar era.
Life is walking in the way
Back then at 16 and 17 you were expected to step up to the mark and be an adult and you don’t have to go back all that far to find the same thing. There was no such thing as a ‘teenager’ until the 1950s. People react according to expectations and necessity and behave accordingly! There was child culture and adult culture with nothing in between. People are spoiled nowadays especially as we now see people in their 20s behaving like ‘teenagers’ because people are staying out of the workplace longer and being mollycoddled in further, and further, and further educational institutions. You practically need a PhD nowadays to stack shelves in a supermarket!
Have a look at the Bodeian Library at Oxford. Thats very old too. Second largest in Europe.: ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=Bodleian+Library+oxford
I love libraries. Thanks for sharing.
If you want to also check out the Lindisfarne Gospels - older and equally stunning ruclips.net/video/TYds0dsratI/видео.html
Here's an interesting fact, that our Irish brothers don't like to talk about too much. The 'Book of Kells,' as it is now known, was written and made in Scotland and sent to Ireland for safe-keeping when the Norsemen began their viking raids. This is easily proven by the fact that, despite the obvious use of Latin in the text, it also includes notes in Scots Gaelic (not Irish).
The Notes were not written in scots gaelic it did not exist then ,they were written in old irish.Scots Gaelic diverged from middle irish in the 16th centiury before that there was only one gaelic language.Old irish is only understood by a handful of people,which means that a great many old irish manuscripts haven't been translated and probably will not ever be translated sadly.
As stated, scots gaelic didn't even exist when it was written
@@gallowglass2630I would disagree that they won't ever be translated. The work is slow but ongoing. I personally know a good few people actively teaching and working on old irish
You would be welcome anytime. Pints are on us!
The only good thing about organised religion is the incredible architecture and amazing pieces like this that resulted
The library was used in the last transformers movie.
I'll have to check that out.
4:58 I would say, mistakes in Latin - which was never the native language in Ireland, except to St. Patrick - reflect a Latinity gliding away from the Classical norms. Not quite as much as Mozarabic Latin, but still.
If you were to say in Classic Latin "further on, and more turned upwards" it would be "ultra et sursum" or "ultra et magis sursum" - if you add extra comparatives, you would get "ultrerius et surserius" and in Mozarabic Latin we get the actual text "ultreia e suseia" with RS simplified to S, like "ursum" became Spanish "oso." The one Paddington book I ever _possessed_ was called or had in the title "El Oso Paddington" ... examplifying beyond any reasonable doubt "oso" really is "ursum" - so, apart from strange comparative endings in a, why is it suseia and not surseia? Latin is being influenced by what's turning into Spanish. Well, on Ireland or in Scotland, Latin was influenced by what was spoken Gaelic, or in Scotland possibly also Brythonic Pictish.
So, no proof per se the monks were young.
You say correctly that Latin wasn't native to Ireland except to St Patrick , the thing is he was Welsh , so Latin wouldn't have been his native tongue either.
@@philipmccarthy6175 His father was a Decurio, so he would have had at least bilingual knowledge of Latin.
I don't think he was ignorant of Old Brythonic either, if you mention it.
@@hglundahl I understand that , just pointing out that Latin wouldn't have been his first language.
@@philipmccarthy6175 Why not?
Welsh encapsulates about 1000 words from Latin from back then (dreic and ceirff being two examples) and this could not have happened without an upper class learning Latin as small children.
St. Patrick was upper class, he certainly did know Latin from smallest childhood.
I'm less confident on when he learned Old Brythonic, but it could have been like anything up to age 5. If he had to wait even longer, it would have meant more isolation from the lower class than I'd expect, and also his learning Irish when captive clearly suggests that he knew a very similar language too. I don't think anything in his autobiography suggests that the Irish was ever totally incomprehensible, like he couldn't have figured out "céann" was "pen" or things.
check out a uk football site called west ham tv There,s a lad on there called Danny He looks like yr twin and has irish blood too.
18yrs middle aged 😳 that's shocking but I guess they died young back then so if you reached 18yrs you were lucky .
Monasteries were considered to be keepers of knowledge and would have had very valuable and well looked-after libraries of their own. The Book of Kells would not have been in danger at Kells. Its move to Trinity College Dublin (an anglo-protestant organisation was not much other than cultural appropriation...pretty much like every English museum of the time was doing in other colonial lands). Cultural appropriation goes hand-in-hand with colonialism. Critical thinking is required.
The Book of Kells is not a Protestant bible. It is a Catholic one, the Protestant (sorta) only came in around the 12th Century. There are more books in the Catholic bible than the Protestant book!! So it is very different from the King James, which only came into fruition in the 17th C!! So the Catholic version is at least 1600 yrs old whilst the King James is about 400!
It's was 1200 years ago
This is a great video. Love the reaction. Love it
(Young people these days can't answer 3 times 3 times 3 so...the young men who wrote this did a good job)
Well .. ya British or Irish
11:02 She didn't mention William Butler Yeats or C. S. Lewis ...?
Sure, CSL made his academic carreere in Oxford, later Cambridge, but can he have come on a visit?
And ... wait, Yeats was not Trinity college but ...
_"A Protestant of Anglo-Irish descent, Yeats was born in Sandymount and was educated in Dublin and London and spent childhood holidays in County Sligo. He studied poetry from an early age, when he became fascinated by Irish legends and the occult. These topics feature in the first phase of his work, lasting roughly from his student days at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin until the turn of the 20th century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood."_
Explains why he also had no bust ...
Not sure what you’re getting at here with the years comment. There are many busts of Anglo-Irish writers and historical figures there
Trinity College?@@leahm8166
I was just commenting on the ones I saw in the video.
All nations think their nation is the best on earth but only irish are right 😂🫡🇮🇪
Don't even bother it doesn't mention orange soda even once.
The language would have been Latin
nearer to the original version of the bible, mathew mark luke and john? every thing else was a " mod " from the "church" . gosspels are the book of rules, the church interprets them for you sheep. flock and shepherd.the gospels "purer".
you do know that northern Ireland is British
He does.....but so???? Are Northern Ireland, Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England not also entitled to their own identities and histories? 🤔
Trinity college is in Dublin not belfast ,so wheres the relevance to this video
DUBLIN is in Southern Ireland. It is the capital city. So it is NOT British it is Southern Irish
@@ElizabethDebbie24 Its irish ,there is so state or country called southern ireland
United kingdom is a clue England, northern Ireland Scotland an Wales. Wales isn't a country it's a Princeaplaty cos they have never had a king or queen, Scotland have their own money
The Irish are well known for their butter
I try to buy dairy from a local farmer, but generally when I buy butter in the store it's Kerrygold. It's the best commercial butter I've had.
@@reactingtomyroots one of my favourite brands! You seem like a really cool bloke, enjoy your content mate
@@kjdempsey Thanks KJ. I really appreciate that.
My paternal grandmother was a Dempsey who migrated fro Ireland (I know not from where in Ireland but they migrated to Preston in Lancasire and then to Chorley in Lancashire andthen to Wigan for the females in the family to work in the cotton mills.
A mockery of the resurrection