The city that replaced Columbus Day with "Indigenous Peoples Day" is commemorating its largely forgotten namesake, the 18th century Irish-born philosopher, Bishop George Berkeley, whose name was ...

Bishop George Berkeley stands at the front of the Berkeley dining hall, frozen in a faded and red painting. As students enter, they glance up at him and his long black robes. He gazes down, silent in ...

But now, historians at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, have renewed scrutiny of records indicating that the city’s namesake – Bishop George Berkeley, an 18th-century Irish philosopher and ...

Often when people write about George Berkeley in connection to our town, they seek to make fun of it, and / or him. A bishop? Namesake of secular / Godless Berkeley? Really? The “when a tree falls in ...

Historians at Trinity College in Dublin discovered through records that Irish philosopher Bishop George Berkeley forced enslaved people to work on his plantation in Rhode Island, according to the ...

No one disputes that George Berkeley was among Ireland’s greatest ... where he eventually became the Anglican Church’s Lord Bishop of Cloyne. Trinity College’s provost, Linda Doyle, said ...

George Berkeley is Ireland's best-known philosopher ... As to renewed interest in hemp cultivation, we can be confident Bishop Berkeley would believe it’s high time.

THIS first volume of the new complete edition of the works of Berkeley is most welcome and is a handsome well-produced book worthy of its subject. Frier's editions of 1871 and 1901 have been ...

Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has decided to remove George Berkeley’s name ... off hookOpens in new window ] Berkeley served as Church of Ireland Bishop of Cloyne and became one of the world ...