Armagh Robinson Library (formerly Armagh Public Library) is the oldest library in Northern Ireland, founded in 1771 by Archbishop Richard Robinson as part of his plans to establish a university and improve the City of Armagh. The Library is a reference library and a museum, open to visitors and researchers, individuals and groups. Its beautiful double-height Long Room contains many important works dating from the 1480s right up to the present day and includes a first copy of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, complete with notations by the author. Look out for the inscription in Greek over the public entrance which aptly translates as: ‘The healing place of the soul’.