Trinity Chancellor Mary McAleese said move was part of dealing with ‘colonial legacies’
Eavan Boland's daughters Eavan Casey and Sarah Casey at Trinity College Dublin on Monday to mark the renaming of its main library after their mother. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaillis “rooted in the determination of staff and students that the building should no longer commemorate a slave owner”, the audience at an event to celebrate the change has heard.
Jointly unveiling the plaque on Monday, Trinity College Chancellor Mary McAleese said it was part of dealing with the university’s “colonial legacies”. The former president linked it to such other events as the return of 13 skulls to Inishbofin in 2023 after more than a century.
Impetus for the change began with a campaign by students, inspired by the Black Lives Matter and other movements.The University Board removed Berkeley’s name in 2023, saying it was now “inconsistent with the university’s core values of human dignity, freedom, inclusivity and equality”. It then started a public consultation process overseen by the Trinity legacies review working group.
Among the suggested names were Peig Sayers, Paul Mescal, Our Lady of Knock, Jesus Christ, Library McLibraryface, the “Snowflake Library”, and An Bradán Feasa . Nominations also included Queen Elizabeth I, the British monarch who founded Trinity College Dublin in 1592.
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