Joseph Darlington, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joseph Darlington

Anglo-Irish Jesuit priest; Dean of Studies and Professor of English in University College Dublin

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1850

Place of Birth: Wigan, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1939

Profession: Catholic priest

Nationality: Irish Free State

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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.
Darlington was also Dean of the Medical School in Cecilia Street, from 1902. Darlington received an MA from Brasenose College, Oxford, and became an Anglican priest; he later converted to Catholicism, becoming a Jesuit.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.