American collector's award-winning library. (Dublin).(The Chester Beatty Library.)

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* It is probably one of the most exciting an comprehensive collections of its kind in the world, located in the heart of Dublin and named earlier this year as European Museum of the Year--the first Irish museum to achieve this distinction.

The Chester Beatty Library, which was bequeathed to the Irish people by the American mining magnate and collector, Sir Alfred Chester Beatty, contains some of the finest treasures of the great cultures and religions of the world. Moreover, it may never have come to Ireland but for Beatty's dislike of postwar British socialism.

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