Should the book of Kells be moved from Trinity college

Agreed.

Have you seen the book of Kells? Its a replica in a glass case. The real book is in storage.

Agreed, the replica it should be moved to Kells or put in the National Museum and the original stored securely in the National Museum.

Disagree. It's a book and it's in a library, which is entirely appropriate. My mother got to actually touch it and turn it's pages. Also, it's origin seems to actually be Scottish, being from Iona, so…

That's really cool about your mam! was she a conservationist?

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No, just good looking. ;-)

That surprises me that it's a replica behind the glass.

Last time I was there there was a security man barking at those who took photos, or tried to take photos.

So why would he do that, if it's only a replica?

I have a First Edition signed by the author. Would that be worth much?

Identify them on CCTV, kick them off their course, arrest a few of them if appropriate and witness the rest of them scurry off into the shadows. ie. D E T E R them. Without a deterrent this is what you are seeing. They know there are zero consequences.

Be some craic, all that studying in Irelands most revered seat of learning and all they might leave with is a criminal conviction … instead of a guaranteed pathway towards employment they’d have earned themselves in many cases a blockade from it.

Maybe my having worked in an academic library in the past has made me biased.

It's not the only valuable and impressive book in the world and for all the others, libraries are most often where they are kept. Plimpton 322 is a Babylonian clay tablet that is 3,700 years old and contains the earliest trigonometry table known, and it predates Pythagoras and the Greeks by at least 1,300 years and is more accurate mathmatically. It is part of a collection of many Babylonian tablets that are held in Columbia University library.

So given Libraries are traditionally places where books and historically important texts are usually kept to make them accessable to schollars for research, I think it's the most appropriate place for the book of kells.

Don't know why I even bothered with the "It's a book and it's in a library, which is entirely appropriate."

They haven't done anything illegal.

I'm in full support of their protest.

So historically important paintings should be moved from art galleries to museums because they are at risk from climate activists throwing stuff over them?

What objective proof do you have that a museum would provide more security than exists at present? Trinity seem to have had adequate security for the past 320 or so years they have had it.

The climate activists would be of greater concern to me than the anti-genocide protesters you fear.

So, now we're to be afraid of students of Trinity f*cking College? Jfc.