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Slavery and empire: Irish universities delve into their colonial past


Berkeley Library at Trinity College
Indeed, Berkeley’s name may be removed from the Trinity library pending the outcome of the college’s two-year examination into its links with slavery and the British empire. Patrick Prendergast, Trinity’s provost, said when announced the university’s Colonial Legacies project last month, that the interrogation of its history was sparked off by “debates that arose from the Black Lives Matter movement”.
Trinity will research legacy issues such as how it redeveloped its curriculum to educate colonial civil servants and exported colonial ideologies to the rest of the British empire.
It will also look at connections between college departments and imperial activities in India, Africa and East Asia, as well has how its academic, librarians and other staff sourced precious manuscripts in Asia and zoological, botanical and anatomical specimens that form the backbone of its teaching collections. “We will have to ask ourselves wh ....

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