{"id":59730,"date":"2025-04-29T08:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T08:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/59730\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T08:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T08:31:08","slug":"the-book-of-kells-library-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/59730\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Kells Library \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always imagined that Paradise<br \/>will be a kind of library. &#8211; Jorge Luis Borges<br \/><b>The Long Room<\/b><br \/>\nThey raised the roof and roofbeams,<br \/>\nmade room for more books.<br \/>\nShelves, like stairs to Paradise<\/p>\n<p><b>Scriptorium, folio 124<\/b>\t<br \/>Elsewhere, centuries ago,<br \/>a young monk <br \/>leans over his work &#8211;<br \/>with goose-feather pen<br \/>and oak-apple ink.<br \/>In scarce window light <br \/>makes careful copy:<br \/>TUNC CRUCIFIXERANT\u2026<br \/>then were crucified with him<br \/>two thieves &#8211;<br \/>recalling you too<br \/>will be with me in Paradise.<\/p>\n<p><b>Cabinet Holding<\/b><br \/>You and I move alongside <br \/>the lit cabinet glass,<br \/>inspecting every angle<br \/>of its single page display.<br \/>In queue, inching forward,<br \/>next to the man <br \/>from Buenos Aires.<br \/>But none came like you,<br \/>your lined notebook,<br \/>and sharpened pencil.<br \/>In low reverent light<br \/>you copy out the Latin text.<\/p>\n<p>Louise C Callaghan\u2019s  latest book, Bee, I Am Expecting You: New &amp; Selected Poems, is due for publication soon from Salmon Poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I have always imagined that Paradisewill be a kind of library. &#8211; Jorge Luis BorgesThe Long Room They&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,31102,31103,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-59730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-poems-of-the-week","11":"tag-poetry","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114420323724057763","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}