Joseph Darlington

This article is about the Jesuit priest, Joseph Darlington. For the American politician Joseph Darlinton, see Joseph Darlinton.

Fr. Joseph Darlington SJ (1850–1939), was an English-born Jesuit Priest, who served as dean of studies and professor of English in University College Dublin, at the time a Jesuit College. James Joyce was one of his pupils at UCD, and Joyce based the character Fr Butt SJ in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man on him.[1] Darlington was also dean of the Medical School in Cecilia Street, from 1902.

The second son of Ralph Darlington of Wigan, he matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1869, graduating B.A. in 1874, and M.A. in 1876.[2] He was ordained as an Anglican priest; he later converted to Catholicism, becoming a Jesuit.[3]

Darlington contributed to the St. Stephens magazine in UCD. In 1895 he was first editor of The Sheaf magazine for the St Joseph's Young Priests Society.[4]

  1. ^ Father Joseph Darlington 1850-1939 An Appreciation by Emeritus Professor John Howley D.Litt.
  2. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Darlington, Joseph" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  3. ^ Joyce Annotated: Notes for Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Don Gifford, California University Press.
  4. ^ About The Sheaf, St Josephs Young Priest Society Website.