Trinity's Berkeley Library to be named after Eavan Boland

Almost half of the worlds Jews live in Israel and they are under constant threat by Iranian proxies, as such they're fighting an all-out war right now. Whether you want to admit it or not, there is a very strong overlap.

No idea what any of this has to do with George Berkeley or the library in Trinity.

We could avoid all this nonsense is we stop naming libraries after historical figures in the first place. It's all very pretentious. Trinity college seems like quite the pretensions place but I suppose it's all part of the image of what is essentially a business like any other.

Library is no longer named after a bold boy from a few hundred years ago.

Grand, fvck him.

But who benefits?

These renaming's have no tangible outcomes beyond optics and bragging rights for the activists involved. This isn't altruism, if it was it wouldn't have played out as it did.

Just rename it and be done with it.

Seriously, who cares?

i think this is a retrograde step

I am against the revision of history where a person’s achievements are extinguished because of a single view that was accepted then but is unacceptable now. People operated in the context of their time judging them on todays standard is moronic - those standards will change again and we could be judged by future generations. this sets a perhaps dangerous but definitely stupid precedent

erasing achievement and their subsequent memorials based on a single unsettling action undermines the contribution of the person in its entirety.

was every person in those times evil? or just the ones rich enough to afford slaves.

there is a very warped view of our past and how we got here.

some white liberal guilt trip because in other parts of the world this self reflection or self hatred isn't going on despite massive conolisations/wars/genocide and slavery.

We renamed O'Connell St. in celebration of the successful overthrowing of our colonial oppresor.

Who did we overthrow this time?

Never heard of her.

The day they stop is the day I know there's actually something wrong in the world.

I'm applying the same logic, it's just more difficult to put in to practice. The half assed approach is nothing more than window dressing.

It's not about a logical reason, people just think it's silly. No one is getting their knickers in a twist about it although I'd say by post count you'd have to be a front runner if someone was.

My logic is sound, this is just a pandering exercise. Which is grand but lets not make it out to be anything more than that..

I don't think he was a slave trader, as such

(don't think he was being 'venerated' either, tbh…)

I haven’t seen anything that says he did anything other than espouse the benefits and virtues of slavery. He seems to have progressed to not only a slave owner, but also a slave trader.

Of course Trinity college were correct to rename the New Library. Aside from those who claim never to have heard of Boland, what is most interesting is the list of thinks put forward in defence of retaining the Berkeley name on the library. These include.

the good outweighs any bad.
placate whining students and staff
some white liberal guilt
Volkwagon
the pyramids, the White House,
Catholic Church
vox pop on Grafton street
wokerati's
American style identity politics
every person owned slaves
The Islamic world
GAA
Roald Dahl books.
holy trinity,
Sexual abuse by the clergy
destroying and hiding your legacy
the nazis
talibans .
Israel
"you're an anti-semite"

Perhaps there is no library , just our perception of a library.