Trinity College to look at renaming library called after 'racist' slave-owner

The Berkeley Library at Trinity College, Dublin. File picture: Trinity College Dublin/PA Wire

A group set up to look at the potential renaming of a Trinity College library because of the name’s links to slavery warned it was likely to cause “reputational impact”.

The working group had been established to examine the title of the Berkeley Library, named after George Berkeley, who supported slavery, was racist, and called the Irish poor “a lazy destitute race” who were more “abject” even than slaves.