TCD to Rename Library

In April 2023, following a University Board decision, College elected to dename the Berkeley Library. The announcement further stated that the former Berkeley Library was to be referred to as simply ‘the Library’ with the building to be renamed within the academic year. However, after a year and a half, and over an academic year later, the Library is still without a new name. 

The origins of the controversy surrounding the library can be traced back as far as 2020 when College made a statement claiming that while conversations were being had surrounding the name of the library, there were then no plans to rename it. However, following the swift removal of Erwin Schrödinger’s name from a lecture hall by the School of Physics, in response to discoveries that he sexually abused young girls, many expressed confusion and outrage that Berkeley’s name remained on the library, particularly given that his slave ownership and pro-enslavement activism are not new revelations. 

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