RIC Depot Library, Phoenix Park

feeds@kickapps.com (Peter Mc RIC) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:29:22 PST

This would have been a familiar scene to every constable who passed through the Depot in Dublin for basic training. Your family member would undoubtedly have handled some of these books, and even sat in those chairs.
In the days before TV and iPods, what better way to spend a wet Saturday afternoon in old Dublin town?

.....and here is one of the books he would have read. Suitably for a police library entitled 'Contraband', and published in 1871.