Working Paper on George Berkeley's Legacies at Trinity
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Mobeen Hussain, Ciaran O'Neill and Patrick Walsh, Working Paper on George Berkeley's Legacies at Trinity, 2023Abstract:
This Working Paper details the memorialisation of Bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753) at Trinity
College Dublin. It begins by first explaining who George Berkeley was, before moving on to discuss
how he has been memorialised by successive generations in TCD, including but not limited to the
Berkeley Library. The next section then provides detailed historical evidence on Bishop George
Berkeley’s slave-owning activities and his ideological support for the slave system and settler
colonialism. Section 4 then moves on to address the public submissions made to the Trinity Legacy
Review Working Group (TLRWG) in January 2023 in response to the first working paper published by
the TLRWG. The final section draws on international best practice to show how peer universities have
dealt with/are dealing with similar issues in the contemporary context.
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Trinity College Dublin (TCD)
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Author: Walsh, Patrick; O'Neill, Ciaran
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Trinity College Dublin (TCD)Type of material:
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Inclusive Society , Making Ireland , Public HistoryMetadata
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