At the very end of _The Secret of #Kells,_ the chi-rho page gets revealed and animated, every detail comes alive and takes its place in the general design, it's awesome. Then the camera slowly backs up and it ends up on a short fixed frame showing the whole page. What I find truly amazing is that the studio had to actually redesign it! The whole thing!! I so wish I had a high-res file and/or print of this 😍
#bookhistory #medievistodon

(Link to the original: https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/parent/hm50tr726/folios/6395w7327)

Every March we watch The Secret of Kells. It's inspired by the Book of Kells, a real Irish illuminated book of the Gospels.

This is hands down the most beautiful movie I've ever seen.

Have you watched it?

#movies #Irish #Ireland #iona #kells #secretofkells #cinema

5 Jan 1682: d. Henry Jones, Bishop of #Meath in #Dublin #otd Writer on Lough Derg, scoutmaster-general with Cromwellian forces
Presented the Books of #Kells and of #Durrow to the library of Trinity College Dublin
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Buried St. Andrew's Church #Dublin on 6 Jan