Trinity College is set to remove the name of a slave owner from its library.
The Berkeley Library is named after philosopher George Berkeley. The college's largest library was first opened in 1967 but was named after the philosopher in 1967.
The college said Berkeley, who worked as a former librarian, published "some of his most important philosophical works" while at Trinity in the 1700s. In a statement, the institution added: "He bought slaves, named Philip, Anthony, Edward, and Agnes Berkeley, to work on his Rhode Island estate in 1730-31 and sought to advance ideology in support of slavery," the Irish Mirror reports.
