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  • Ireland: Irish artist Frank Buckley seating on a sofa in one of the rooms at his Billion Euro House art installation in central Dublin. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: A painting hangs from a wall at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: A newspaper clipping on display at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • Ireland: Detailed view of a brick made of shredded money at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley...Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • Ireland: General view of the only bedroom at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • Ireland: Art work on display at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: A satirical gravestone is seen at the entrance of the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: A fifty euro bill toilet paper is seen hanging in a wall at the toilet area of the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: View of an interior wall at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • Ireland: Irish artist Frank Buckley explains to a young visitor, how he made the bricks of shredded money used in the cosntruction of his Billion Euro House art installation in central Dublin. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • Ireland: Irish artist Frank Buckley at the kitchen in his Billion Euro House art installation in central Dublin. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • Ireland: General view of the entrance hall at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • Ireland: A painting is displayed on a wall at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: A bicycle covered with shredded money is on display at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: A wall clock made of shredded money is displayed at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: A satirical gravestone is seen at the entrance of the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: A guitar covered with shredded money stands among other objects in the main hall of the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: General view of the kitchen area at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: PView of the toilet area at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: Paintings hanging in a wall at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: General view of the Glass House Building, where the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley, is set up...Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • Ireland: Irish artist Frank Buckley jumps to a bed in the only bedroom at his Billion Euro House art installation in central Dublin. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • Ireland: General view of the only bedroom at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • Ireland: View of the only bedroom at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • Ireland: Irish artist Frank Buckley seating on a sofa in one of the rooms at his Billion Euro House art installation in central Dublin. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • Ireland: Irish artist Frank Buckley seating on a sofa in one of the rooms at his Billion Euro House art installation in central Dublin. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • Ireland: Irish artist Frank Buckley stands beside the main entrance of his Billion Euro House art installation in central Dublin. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: A suitcase full of shredded money on display at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: A painting of Marilyne Monroe is seen in the wall of a room at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: March 27, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland: View of the toilet area at the Billion Euro House art installation by the Irish artist Frank Buckley. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • Ireland: Irish artist Frank Buckley passes by in his Billion Euro House art installation in central Dublin. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • Ireland: Irish artist Frank Buckley stands in the main hall of his Billion Euro House art installation in central Dublin. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • Ireland: Irish artist Frank Buckley stands beside the main entrance of his Billion Euro House art installation in central Dublin. ..Worthless euros, taken out of circulation and shredded by Irelands Central Bank, formes the interior walls of an apartment that Mr. Buckley does not own in a building left vacant by the countrys economic ruin...The artist decided to call the apartment  built from thousands of bricks of shredded, decommissioned cash (each brick contains, roughly, what used to be 50,000 euros)  the Billion Euro House. He reckons that about 1.4 billion euros actually went into it, but the joke, of course, is that it is worth simultaneously so much and so little...A large gravestone beside the main door, announces that Irish sovereignty died in 2010, the year that the government accepted an international bailout so larded with onerous conditions that the Irish will be paying for it for years to come. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Polaris)
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  • Screengrab of "Billion Euro House art by Irish artist Frank Buckley" published in TIME LightBox
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