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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Cillian Sherlock & Clare McCarthy

FOUND: Trinity college dublin set to remove slave owner s name from library - You Need To See This

Trinity College Dublin has decided to remove the name of a slave owner from its largest library.

First opened in 1967, the Berkeley Library was named after philosopher George Berkeley in 1978.

The institution said Berkeley, a former librarian at the university, published "some of his most important philosophical works" while at Trinity in the 1700s.

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