Selling the book of Kells to cancel out debt

iMax

Say a group of businesspeople Warren Buffett/Steve Jobs/Bill Gates/etc, you know the type...

They offer Ireland €150B for the book of Kells, they each want to have it in their houses for a couple of weeks a year & they say that we can have it for a two week period once a year where it can be displayed.

It would cancel our debt (& then some). Should we sell ?

Please qualify your answer

ChunkyLover_53

Is there a Kindle version?

Hazys

Nah, lets just get Yore Ma to start charging $10 a go and we'll be back in the black by 2012

Mr. Loverman

Like most Irish people, I've never seen it and probably never will.

Sell the bollox.

Chris P. Bacon

Mr. Loverman wrote: »

Like most Irish people, I've never seen it and probably never will.

Sell the bollox.

Many Chinese people can say the same about the wall,but they have more pride in that.

super_furry

Definitely. I'd throw in Cork to sweeten the deal.

Gunsfortoys

150bn?

There would need to be a mess of terms and conditions attached.

Like politicians getting none of it!

Superbus

Is it worth that?

Does 'Ireland' as an entity own it?

Why would they want it?

El Guapo!

Sell the fcuker! Its shít anyway

red menace

Where did you get a figure of 150 Billion?

admiralofthefleet

super_furry wrote: »

Definitely. I'd throw in Cork to sweeten the deal.

a tenner wouldnt clear much of our dept

abouttobebanned

Can we not just sell the movie rights and get Peter Jackson on the case?

medicsie

Wouldn't surprise me if Inda agreed to it.

Mr. Loverman

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

a tenner wouldnt clear much of our dept

Which dept?

The department of finance?

PeterIanStaker

Sell it ta f**k.

It'd break records for most expensive work of fiction.

admiralofthefleet

Mr. Loverman wrote: »

Which dept?

The department of finance?

yeah the department of finance, since they 'look after' our financial affairs. silly:pac:

Guy:Incognito

Chris P. Bacon wrote: »

Many Chinese people can say the same about the wall,but they have more pride in that.

Bit harder to sell and transport the Great Wall.

Agent J

Where did that valuation of 150B come from?

Anglo?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

We'd sell it, go nuts on the profits, ignore any needed reforms to public services, engage in trickle-down ecomincs again, lend too much money we don't have and be back to square one by 2020.

Dwellingdweller

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

We'd sell it, go nuts on the profits, ignore any needed reforms to public services, engage in trickle-down ecomincs again, lend too much money we don't have and be back to square one by 2020.

Sure we'd have Newgrange sold off and turned into a private beauty spa then, keep us in the black for another decade. Bob's your uncle.

Fluorescence

I dunno why they'd even want it. I mean, what are they gonna do with it??

I'd imagine it's a good tourist attraction though, and worth keeping in that sense. But €150bn is a LOT of money.

Krusader

No, just no.

Wibbs

Crosáidí wrote: »

No, just no.

... a thousand times no.

Oh_Noes

You'd get a lot more for the Blarney Stone and would probably have a lot more takers.

fontanalis

Oh_Noes wrote: »

You'd get a lot more for the Blarney Stone and would probably have a lot more takers.

That's expendable
Some American states have been selling revenue genrating assets to plug budget gaps
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/exclusive-excerpt-america-on-sale-from-matt-taibbis-griftopia-20101018

theboss80

Might aswell The Book Of Kells-Part Deux is coming out next summer

matchthis

We'd probably get it back with half the pages stuck together, dirty feckers

dvpower

Sell it and invest the money in property. We could double it in just a few short years.

dvpower

Oh_Noes wrote: »

You'd get a lot more for the Blarney Stone and would probably have a lot more takers.

Is the Blarney Stone a diamond?

Elliejo

Oh_Noes wrote: »

You'd get a lot more for the Blarney Stone and would probably have a lot more takers.

Or do you mean talkers?;):p

Degag

Pointless thread is pointless.

theboss80

Oh_Noes wrote: »

You'd get a lot more for the Blarney Stone and would probably have a lot more takers.

Blarney Stone is actually an old french window sill

Tipsy McSwagger

But it's already coloured in

talla10

Sell!!!Sure we stole from a small island off scotland it was only finished in Kells!!

Sell and lets inflate that property balloon, bring all the oul crew and rock this party like its 2004!!!

Xivilai

Stolen? It was made by Irish Monks

talla10

Xivilai wrote: »

Stolen? It was made by Irish Monks

Nope it was made on a small island off the coast of scotland. It was only finished in Kells.

Paparazzo

It would be crazy not to sell it for 150 billion

Xivilai

talla10 wrote: »

Nope it was made on a small island off the coast of scotland. It was only finished in Kells.

It was an Irish Monastery, there was probably some Irish monks involved at least

WindSock

SUre its a load of arse as it is, trinity charges a fortune to see just one page.

Dionysus

Sell everything. Live moves on. You can't stop progress. Now's the time we should be selling off pieces of the Hill of Tara and Newgrange and digging up all around them and selling everything. When that's done, it's long overdue to start selling everything in the National Museum, National Art Gallery and all the rest.

When we get back on our feet again, we can pay a bunch of intellectuals then to create another set of "values". Within a few generations society will have created innumerable other sacred cows. Sheer genius the way it works, really.

'Most people are bastards, and everything is bullshít'

- Lord Conrad Black

phasers

I'd sell that heap o ****e for 100 quid tbh

Terry

Mr. Loverman wrote: »

Like most Irish people, I've never seen it and probably never will.

Sell the bollox.

I'm most Irish people, and I've seen it.
You're wrong.

Degag wrote: »

Pointless thread is pointless.

Pointless meme is far more pointless than the time it took for you to to...
Can't be arsed finishing this because it's so pointless.

WindSock wrote: »

SUre its a load of arse as it is, trinity charges a fortune to see just one page.

Quiet down, woman.

Dionysus wrote: »

Sell everything. Live moves on. You can't stop progress. Now's the time we should be selling off pieces of the Hill of Tara and Newgrange and digging up all around them and selling everything. When that's done, it's long overdue to start selling everything in the National Museum, National Art Gallery and all the rest.

When we get back on our feet again, we can pay a bunch of intellectuals then to create another set of "values". Within a few generations society will have created innumerable other sacred cows. Sheer genius the way it works, really.

'Most people are bastards, and everything is bullshít'

- Lord Conrad Black

"I like shiny stuff"
Lauren Conrad of The Hills.

Dwellingdweller

matchthis wrote: »

We'd probably get it back with half the pages stuck together, dirty feckers

lol, 'magine getting it back with knobs drawn in the margins of every page.

Guy:Incognito

Terry wrote: »

I'm most Irish people, and I've seen it.
You're wrong.

your 2 and a half million people? :eek:

questionmark?

How about we sell Kells instead. Less people would miss that place than the book:p

Killer Pigeon

I think that all religious literature should be publicly burned.

Burn the Book of Kells!!

WindSock

Terry wrote: »

I'm most Irish people, and I've seen it.
You're wrong.


Pointless meme is far more pointless than the time it took for you to to...
Can't be arsed finishing this because it's so pointless.



Quiet down, woman.

"I like shiny stuff"
Lauren Conrad of The Hills.

No....you....who cares why is everyone such a ****. I'm going to bed.




In a minute.

Hank_Jones

Yes, yes, let's sell it.

Then we can sell the GPO, Dublin Castle, The Ardagh Chalice, etc,etc...

Do you people ever think that the reason you want it to be sold is because you have no culture or interest our country's past?

We can sell the fcuking Spire alright, the Book of Kells...not so much.

Rds1989

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Yes, yes, let's sell it.

Then we can sell the GPO, Dublin Castle, The Ardagh Chalice, etc,etc...

Do you people ever think that the reason you want it to be sold is because you have no culture or interest our country's past?

We can sell the fcuking Spire alright, the Book of Kells...not so much.

I have an interest in my country's past but thats a lotttttttttt of money and also im at trinity and the place is clogged up with american tourists at the moment and it makes my trip in to study slightly more uncomfotable

Lapin

Terry wrote: »

I'm most Irish people

WTF

Run that by me again Terry.

Yeah, I'd vote for selling it.. What's the difference. Pretty sure this is the first time I've heard of it in about 7 years.