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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, who was born in 1685 ... posts as well as roles within the Church throughout his life. He became a Bishop of Cloyne in 1734. His writings display both a sharp mind hungry for ...

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 ...

George Berkeley Trinity College Dublin is removing the name of slave owner Bishop George Berkeley from its main library. The 18th Century philosopher’s fall from grace was endorsed by the ...