The Book of Kells in the press: 1849-1987

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A browse through the pages of the international press gives an interesting sense of the growing fame, and changing attitudes to the Book of Kells over the past 150 years.

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From reading these press clippings

• What impressions do you get of people’s changing perceptions of the Book of Kells?
• What aspects of it were seen as most important?

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• Is the ‘meaning’ of the Book of Kells continuing to change?

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EXERCISE

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