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Trinity College Dublin celebrates renaming of Library after Irish poet Eavan Boland

In the week after International Women’s Day, Trinity College Dublin marked the renaming of its main library after the poet Eavan Boland with a special event on campus today, Monday, March 10. The ...
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Trinity College Dublin renames main Library formerly named after Irish-born slave-holder

Trinity College Dublin is renaming its main Library, formerly named after George Berkeley, after the acclaimed Irish poet Eavan Boland. This decision was made by the University Board on Wednesday, ...
The Irish Times

Goodbye George Berkeley, hello Eavan Boland: why has Trinity renamed its biggest library?

Remind me why the name Berkeley was so controversial? George Berkeley, born in Kilkenny in 1685, was a theologian and philosopher who spent most of his life studying and working in Trinity. The ...
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Ireland’s oldest university names its first building after a woman. It only took 433 years

Trinity College Dublin may have been founded by Queen Elizabeth I, but for over 400 years every building on the prestigious university campus has been named after a man. Until now. This month, an ...
The Irish Times

The Irish Times view on Trinity College’s renamed library: a natural process of change

In 1924, following several decades of lobbying and disputation, Dublin’s main thoroughfare was finally renamed O’Connell Street. Like all such changes, the new name was a public affirmation of shifts ...
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For First Time In 433 Years, This University Named Building After A Woman

The university has officially renamed one of its main libraries. It took 433 years for Trinity College Dublin to name one of its buildings after a woman. Even though Ireland's leading university was ...
The Irish Times

Eavan Boland, who wrote about women’s lives, is a better fit for Trinity than slave-owning Berkeley

Trinity College Dublin’s largest library has been denamed and now renamed. The new dedication will celebrate Irish poet and 1966 TCD graduate Eavan Boland and replaces that of fellow Trinity graduate, ...
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Trinity College Dublin celebrates renaming former Berkeley library after poet Eavan Boland

The renaming of Trinity College Dublin’s former Berkeley Library after Eavan Boland is “rooted in the determination of staff and students that the building should no longer commemorate a slave owner”, ...
Independent.ie

Trinity College Dublin renames main library after Irish poet Eavan Boland

Trinity College Dublin is renaming its main library after the acclaimed Irish poet Eavan Boland. The decision was made by the University Board today after a period of research, analysis and public ...
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Trinity College Dublin renames main library after poet Eavan Boland

Trinity College Dublin is renaming its main library after the acclaimed Irish poet Eavan Boland, making the library the first building on the college's campus to be named after a woman. It had been ...
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Ireland’s oldest university names its first building after a woman. It only took 433 years

The exterior of Trinity College Dublin’s Eavan Boland Library, previously known as the Berkeley Library. - Kathy Rose O'Brien/CNN ...
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Ireland’s oldest university names its first building after a woman. It only took 433 years

The exterior of Trinity College Dublin’s Eavan Boland Library, previously known as the Berkeley Library. - Kathy Rose O'Brien/CNN Trinity College Dublin may have been founded by Queen Elizabeth I, but ...