Justin Huntly McCarthy
Justin Huntly McCarthy | |
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Patrick George Hamilton Carvill | |
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Born | 1859 |
Died | Justin McCarthy (father) | 20 March 1936
Justin Huntly McCarthy (1859 – 20 March 1936)
He was the son of
Political career
McCarthy was first elected to
Athlone lost its status as a
Writing
McCarthy wrote various novels, plays, poetical pieces and short histories. He was briefly married to the actress
Among other works, he wrote biographies of Sir Robert Peel (1891), Pope Leo XIII (1896) and William Ewart Gladstone (1898). In 1889 he published prose translations of 466 quatrains of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.[6] He also wrote:
In 1893, he translated some Gazels from Divan of Hafiz, the 14th century Persian poet, which was published in a 152-page volume by David Nutt. 1000 copies were made, 800 for England and 200 for America.
- Serapion and Other Poems (1883)
- Outline of Irish History (1883)
- England under Gladstone, 1880-1885, 2nd ed. (1885)
- Doom (1886)
- Our Sensation Novel (1886)
- Hafiz in London (1886)
- Lady Burton's Edition of Her Husband's Arabian Nights Translated Literally from the Arabic (1886-1888); Prepared for Household Reading by Justin Huntly McCarthy, MD; 6 vols.; London: Waterlow & Sons, Limited, London Wall.
- The Case for Home Rule (1887)
- Camiola, a Girl with a Fortune (1888)
- An outline of Irish history: from the earliest times to the present day (1890)
- Lily Lass (1890)
- The Fate of Fenella: A Novel, co-written in 1892.
- Divan of Hafiz, Gazels, translated by J H McCarthy London: D.Nutt (1893)
- Modern England (1898)
- Michel de Montaigne, Essayes of Montaigne (1899) Justin Huntly McCarthy Editor
- Cissie Loftus: An Appreciation (1899)
- Reminiscences (2 vols., 1899)
- A Short History of the United States (1899)
- A Woman of Impulse (1899) was made into a film in 1918 Woman of Impulse
- The French Revolution, (1890 Vols 1,2 & 1897 Vols 3,4)
- A History of the Four Georges (and of William IV) (1901) with Justin McCarthy
- If I Were King (1901) Broadway Season",[7] and was adapted into the 1925 operetta The Vagabond King, its 1930 film version, its 1956 film version, and the 1938 film If I Were King.
- The Reign of Queen Anne (1902)
- Marjorie (1903)
- The Proud Prince (1903), the play opened at The Lyceum, Broadway, NY on 2 Nov 1903.
- The lady of Loyalty house (1904)
- The Dryad (1905)
- The flower of France (1906)
- The illustrious O'Hagan (1906)
- Needles and Pins (1907)
- Seraphica: A Romance (1907)[8]
- The Duke's Motto: A Melodrama (1908)[9]
- The god of love (1909)
- The gorgeous Borgia: a romance (1909)
- The O'Flynn: A Novel (1910)
- The king over the water: or, The marriage of Mr. Melancholy (1911)
- A health unto His Majesty (1912)
- Calling the Tune (1913) it was made into a musical film in 1936, Calling the Tune.
- Fool of April (1914)
- The Glorious Rascal (Pretty Maids All in a Row) (1915)
- Nurse Benson (1919)
- Henry Elizabeth (1920)
- The Golden Shoe (1921)
Family life
McCarthy married musical artist Cecilia Loftus in 1893 in Edinburgh, Scotland, but the marriage did not last long and was dissolved in 1899.[11] He married again in 1908 to Loullie Killick.[11] McCarthy died at his home in Putney on 20 March 1936.[11]
References
- ^ "Historical list of MPs: constituencies beginning with "N", part 2". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 6 October 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2009.
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- ^ Walker, op. cit., p. 134.
- ^ Walker, op. cit., p. 140.
- ^ Burns Mantle and Garrison P. Sherwood, eds., (1944). The Best Plays of 1899-1909, p.67.
- ^ O. Khayyam, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, transl. by Justin Huntly McCarthy MP., 1889.
- ^ Mantle, op. cit., pp.66-106.
- ^ "Review of Seraphica by Justin Huntly McCarthy". The Athenaeum (4175): 546. 2 November 1907.
- The Athenaeum(4196): 380.
- ^ see internet catalogue for details : Justin Huntly McCarthy
- ^ a b c "Deaths." Times [London, England] 23 Mar. 1936: 1. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 31 May 2015.
- Secondary Sources
- Walker, Brian M. (1978). Parliamentary election results in Ireland 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0-901714-12-7.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - Mantle, Burns; Sherwood, Garrison P. (1944). The Best Plays of 1899-1909. Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Khayyam, Omar (1889). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (translated by Justin Huntly McCarthy MP. ed.). London: D. Nutt.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - McCarthy, Justin H. (28 March 1908). "Review: The Duke's Motto". The Athenaeum (4196): 380.
- "Justin Huntly McCarthy". The Times. London, England: 1. 23 March 1936.
External links
- Repository for Rubaiyat of Omar Khaiyyam: Trinity College Dublin Library
- Works by Justin Huntly McCarthy at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Justin Huntly McCarthy at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Works by or about Justin Huntly McCarthy at Internet Archive
- Justin Huntly McCarthy at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Justin Huntly McCarthy
- Justin H. McCarthy at Library of Congress, with 89 library catalogue records