Joseph Darlington

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.