Donald Caird
The Most Reverend Donald Caird | |
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Trinity College, Dublin |
Donald Arthur Richard Caird (11 December 1925 – 1 June 2017) was an Irish bishop[1] who held three senior posts in the Church of Ireland during the last third of the 20th century.[2]
He was born in
Primate of Ireland. He retired in 1996.[citation needed
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Donald Caird took a keen interest in the Irish language from an early age. He encountered members of
Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise (the Irish Guild of the Church) at an Irish language service in Dublin's St Patrick's Cathedral in the early 1940s, which made a deep impression on him. Around this time, he was sent to the Gaeltacht in West Kerry by his father to improve his Irish, staying in the Dún Chaoin area and was fascinated to encounter members of his church community worshipping in Irish at a small church at Kilmalkeader (Cill Mhaolcheadair) on the Dingle peninsula, overlooking the Atlantic. He was appointed to Bord na Gaeilge, the state body for the promotion of the language, in 1975 while Bishop of Limerick, by Tom O'Donnell TD, Minister for the Gaeltacht.[5]
He died on 1 June 2017 at the age of 91.[6]
References
- ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- ISBN 0-19-821745-5
- ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
- ISBN 0-19-200008-X
- ISBN 9781782181781
- ^ The Most Revd Dr Donald Arthur Richard Caird
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