Renaming the Berkeley Library

Sir, – Given the fact that any new name for the Library Once Known as Berkeley (or Lokab?) will prompt an immediate search for details to be offended by or condemn, would the “Inoffensive” or “Non-Problematic” library be suitable options? – Yours, etc,

BRIAN O’BRIEN,

Kinsale,

Co Cork.

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Sir , – I give you the man who opened that library, President Éamon de Valera. – Yours, etc,

DAVID McMENAMIN,

Killiney,

Co Dublin.

A chara, – The renaming of the Berkeley Library only needs the addition of one word.

The new name would read “Not the Berkeley Library”. – Is mise,

PATRICK McHUGH,

Drogheda,

Co Louth.