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                            Introduction
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Justin Huntly McCarthy (1859 - 20 March 1936) was an Irish writer,
historian, and nationalist politician. He was a Member of Parliament
(MP) from 1884 to 1892, taking his seat in the House of Commons of the
United Kingdom.

He was the son of Justin McCarthy (1830-1912). Since both father and
son were writers, historians, and Members of Parliament, they are
sometimes confused in lists and compilations.


                          Political career
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McCarthy was first elected to Parliament at a by-election on 12 June
1884, when he was returned unopposed as the Home Rule League member
for Athlone, following the death of the Liberal MP Sir John James
Ennis.

Athlone lost its status as a parliamentary borough under the
Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and at the 1885 general election
McCarthy stood instead in the borough of Newry in County Down, where
he was returned unopposed for the Irish Parliamentary Party. He was
re-elected in 1886, with a comfortable majority over the Liberal
Unionist Reginald Saunders, but did not contest the 1892 election.


                              Writing
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McCarthy wrote various novels, plays, poetical pieces and short
histories. He was briefly married to the actress Cissie Loftus.  They
married in Edinburgh in 1894, and though they divorced in 1899, she
originated the role of Katherine de Vaucelles, the heroine in 'If I
Were King' in 1901.

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'. 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) Garden Theatre (New York), (1902) St James's
Theatre (London)), which was named "Best Play of the 1901-02 Broadway
Season", 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)
*'The Duke's Motto: A Melodrama' (1908)
*'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
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McCarthy married musical artist Cecilia Loftus in 1893 in Edinburgh,
Scotland, but the marriage did not last long and was dissolved in
1899. He married again in 1908 to Loullie Killick. McCarthy died at
his home in Putney on 20 March 1936.


                             References
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                           External links
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* Repository for 'Rubaiyat' of Omar Khaiyyam:
[http://library.catalogue.tcd.ie/record=b13332609~S9 Trinity College
Dublin Library]
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| title = Member of Parliament for Athlone
| years = 1884 - 1885
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