The number of people visiting the Chester Beatty Library has increased more than tenfold since it moved from Ballsbridge to Dublin Castle, the library said yesterday.
The library, which this week marks the first anniversary of the move, received some 6,000 visitors to its former home on Shrewsbury Road. But over the past year some 70,000 people have visited it in the Castle's Clock Tower Building.
During this period, as well as displaying selections from its own collection of western, Oriental and Islamic books, manuscripts and decorative arts material, the library has played host to a number of visiting exhibitions including the original manuscript of James Joyce's Ulysses brought to this country for the first time.