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The Princess Grace Irish Library was founded in 1984 as a testimony to Princess Grace’s attachment to her Irish family origins. It occupies the second floor of a handsome building at 9, rue Princesse Marie de Lorraine (Monaco-Ville), which it shares with the Princess Grace Fondation. The Library serves as a centre for Irish cultural studies on the Mediterranean while welcoming the wider Irish-studies community -- and, indeed, all book lovers -- as every-day visitors as well as on special occasions restricted by invitation.

The Library’s collection of some 8,000 books has been built up around Princess Grace’s own collection by means of steady accession and large-scale acquisitions from other collectors, notably members of the Parke family, and the distinguished scholars Professor A. N. Jeffares and Professor Ann Saddlemyer. It contains numerous works of the literary revival (1892-1922), mostly in first editions, and a good selection of older Irish books and imprints as well as an impressive range of contemporary writing. Prime volumes include the Annals of the Four Masters (1841-45), the modern facsimile Book of Kells and early editions of the works of James Joyce. A 17th century polychrome atlas of Ireland produced in Amsterdam with Spanish printed text adorns the Reading Room where paintings by Jack Yeats, Louis le Brocquy and Robert Ballagh and sculpture by Kees Verkade are also displayed.

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