Life
[d.1938]; Archbishop of Armagh; DD, FRSA, MRIA, Hon. DD (Oxon, Belf.,
Glasgow); Hon Litt.D. (Dublin); conducted a service and blessing prior
in Belfast Cathedral, 28 Sept. 1912, and proceeded to City Hall to sign
the Ulster Covenant, Sept. 28, 1912; life-long friend of James Craig,
Lord Craigavon; author of The Christian Outlook on the Modern World; Providence and the World Order; et al.; The Adventures of a
Bishop: A Phase in Irish Life (1934).
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Quotations
The Adventures of a Bishop: A Phase in Irish Life, a Personal and Historical
Narrative by Charles Frederick D’Arcy (London: Hodder & Stoughton
1934), 319pp.; Introduction: ‘The intense self-consciousness of the
Irish and their desire to assert themselves agains the overwhelming strength
of another people have produced a multitude of books. The result is a
literature with a distinct quality of its own; a literature which has
interested the world and gained a wider hearing and more sympathy than
could perhaps have been expected./But there is an element of Irish life
which though living and active, has been strangely silent, and whose existence
is hardly known to the outside world. This part of the people of Ireland
is not contemptible. It has not failed in private virtue or public service.
It has taken more than its share of the work of the world to which it
belongs. Its one failure is that it has never forced itself upon the attention
of the world./My purpose in these pages is to tell things as I saw them,
and to weave round a personal [narrative] some account of the social life
and spiritual outlook of those among whom I have lived and worked all
my life.’ Incidental passages deal with Lord McNaughton (p.99ff.);
Pan-Anglican Conference, London 1906; mentions also serious injuries to
his son John at Ypres, 4 Nov. 1916, and his being found and rescued on
the battle field by the late Lord Dufferin after being left for dead;
defends Primate Stone (p.229f.).
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