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No one disputes that George Berkeley was among Ireland’s greatest thinkers, but he was also an unapologetic slaver. Now, Trinity College Dublin is taking his name off one of its buildings.
Trinity College Dublin, a university in Ireland, will remove the name Berkeley from its main library on campus, The New York Times reported. The university concluded that George Berkeley, whom the ...
Dublin's Trinity College is giving its biggest library a renaming after determining its ties to slave-owning philosopher George Berkeley are inconsistent with its values.
The Eavan Boland Library is the first building on Trinity College Dublin's city-centre campus to be named after a woman. The Library was previously named after George Berkeley.
Trinity College Dublin names its Brutalist library after Irish female poet Eavan Boland, the first building named after a woman in the famous university’s 433 years.
The main library at Trinity College Dublin has been renamed after Irish poet Eavan Boland. It will be the first building on Trinity's campus to be named after a woman.
Ireland's oldest university has decided that its library will no longer be called after the philosopher George Berkeley, due to his links to slavery. Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has said it will ...
In parallel with that process, Trinity is also cataloguing and digitising the full collection to build a virtual reconstruction that will expand the Old Library’s reach.
Although Trinity College added a striking new Brutalist library in the 1960s, the Long Room continues to be a working library into the digital age.
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