TRINITY COLLEGE LOWERS THE TONE   

Eavan Boland

TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (TCD) authorities will feel satisfied that it recently handled some ‘legacy’ racism in a deft manner. In 2022 students agitated that George Berkeley, after whom TCD’s modernist library was named, owned slaves and advocated slavery. Berkeley fell in the wake of ‘Rhodes must fall’ demonstrations in Oxford as well as moves against… Read more »

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