Dublin
CNN
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Trinity College Dublin may have been founded by Queen Elizabeth I, but for over 400 years every building on the prestigious university campus has been named after a man. Until now.
This month, an official ceremony marks the renaming of one of the main libraries at Ireland’s leading university — formerly named after a supporter of slavery — in honor of the internationally acclaimed Irish poet Eavan Boland.
“Eavan Boland’s poetry helped write women back into history,” Mary Robinson, Ireland’s first female president and a former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, told CNN via email. “She redefined the literary canon to include…
