THE SOD was turned yesterday for a new building which will house an arts and humanities research institute at Trinity College Dublin.
Among those working in the Trinity Long Room Hub will be the team who are digitising the books of the universities’ famous Long Room library in order to display them online.
The building will facilitate programmes for postgraduate students and their projects.
It will also host post-doctoral research facilities and offices for international fellows.
An “ideas space” will be housed in the hub to facilitate informal conversation among researchers and the wider Trinity arts and humanities community.
The four-storey, granite clad building will be located between the 1937 reading room and the arts building, and will face on to Fellows Square.
Construction is due to be completed by next April.
It will house a 90-seat lecture theatre for presentations, many of which will be broadcast online.
A seminar room will support video-conferencing of academic and managerial meetings with national and international partners.
“This is a fascinating time of innovation for the arts and humanities at Trinity College, as the past meets the future through technology and advanced research methodologies,” Prof Poul Holm, academic director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, said.
