The Berkeley Court hotel was way ahead of its time. It was renamed and then demolished just to be sure.
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My first fag was a Berkley
George Washington owned slaves.
Washington Street could be Noonan Boulevard
Its a testament to how we’ve all matured that this has been let go. Well done all of you.
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I’d be surprised if Noonan was on the shortlist to be honest
I didn’t enjoy it at first but stuck with it
You can only be you.
Has Berkeley commented on this yet?
Millions of slaves around the world today but the wokies only go after targets that have turned to dust
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40,000 children “employed” in cobalt mines in DR Congo but the Wookiee care about a lad who had 3 slaves in 1720.
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The world was built on slavery. Africans were the biggest slavers in the world. Arabs as bad. The Irish were slavers, the Viking world was built on it. Every society in the world had it - India, china , Japan…Slavery still exists in the world today… But wokies go after a philosopher who’s dead centuries 
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Most Indians in our place are contracted for 42 hours per week and work 60 hours most weeks for no extra money. Whipped.
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50 million is the estimate, far more than at any time in human history.
The pro-slavery posters are out in force.
Slavery is the definition of “libertarianism”, as is paedophilia.
No surprise to see which posters support both.
Would they be any good on the mixer?
Load of crap
What next rename the sun 
for having the cheek to actually rise .
What a shit silly loopy world it is in 2023.
FFS we were all slaves in one shape or another,
Us Irish worked like fuck all over the globe for shite wages,in shite conditions without union representation, but just got on with it ,hand to mouth existence was the norm back in my day.
Amazes me what fannies Irish ppl have become.
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Dublin hotel renamed after defender of slavery
COLM KEENA
A hotel across the road from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has been given a new name associated with a defender of the slave trade, just a day after the university announced it was “denaming” a library named after a former owner of slaves.
The Westin Hotel is to be “reimagined” as the Westmoreland Hotel following a multimillion euro investment, its owners announced, a day after TCD said it was “denaming” the Berkeley Library because of the association of the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher, George Berkeley, with the ownership of slaves.
“The multimillion investment programme included a stunning remodelling of the lobby and expansion of the hotel’s iconic atrium lounge, along with the creation of an additional space, the library, and 19 beautifully appointed bedrooms,” the hotel owners said in a press release announcing the hotel’s new name.
Westmoreland Street, on to which the hotel fronts, is named after John Fane, the 10th Earl of Westmorland who, as well as being a Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was a defender of slavery and denounced attempts to end it in the House of Lords in London in 1799.
Three years ago, Dublin Green Party councillor Janet Horner suggested a debate should be had about the origin of Dublin’s street names, suggesting Westmoreland Street might be considered for change because of the Earl of Westmorland’s defence of slavery.
“I think it is a strange change,” she said of the rebranding of the former Westin Hotel, “especially in the context of the conversation we are having about the Trinity library. It is not a time to be entrenching the names of former landlords and defenders of slavery into our city.”
The Westmoreland Hotel is part of the US Marriott Group and is a member of the Irish-owned and managed MHL Hotel Collection.
A request for a comment on the association between the Earl of Westmoreland and the defence of slavery met with no response from the hotel group.
Cllr Ring said Nassau Street, linked to William of Orange, could possibly be a street that could be returned to its original name, St Patrick’s Well Lane.
Green Party Councillor Janet Horner said she would support the plan for an audit.
“We have a historical legacy in Ireland of street names. A lot of them relate to large landowners, British aristocrats and various types that held positions of power in Dublin,” she told Newstalk Breakfast.
She said the names of Grafton Street and Henry Street stem from British landowners, and there are few streets named after women.
“A recent piece of research done by Conor O’Neill would show there are only four, maybe five streets named after women,” said Cllr Horner.
“Or streets like Henrietta Street, which while I think is a beautiful name, is named after the wife of the Duke for the area.”
What about St. Stephen’s Green? Place names should also be secular.
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Wrong.