and it goes on and on. this must be at least 60 metres or something. you re a librarian, here, helen. tell me about this city, dublin what it is that inspires so much great literature? i think it comes down to an oral tradition and a nation of storytellers. dublin itself, you ll see not just oscar wilde s statue or beckett s bridge, but you ll look down and see that there s an inscription of ulysses in the pavement, in the sidewalk it s in the bones of the city. the old library has some 350,000 books, and more than half of them line the shelves of the long room. the collection is a vital piece of dublin s literary heritage, but it s under threat. so, with so many books i mean, hundreds of thousands storage must be a huge problem?
you re a librarian, here, helen. tell me about this city, dublin what it is that inspires so much great literature? i think it comes down to an oral tradition and a nation of storytellers. dublin itself, you ll see not just oscar wilde s statue or beckett s bridge, but you ll look down and see that there s an inscription of ulysses in the pavement, in the sidewalk it s in the bones of the city. the old library has some 350,000 books, and more than half of them line the shelves of the long room. the collection is a vital piece of dublin s literary heritage, but it s under threat. so, with so many books i mean, hundreds of thousands storage must be a huge problem? absolutely. these volumes in here, they re our most valuable, our most valued. they re also our most vulnerable. this is this beautiful library, as you see, but, in effect, we re in an inner city ring road,