Justin Huntly McCarthy

Justin Huntly McCarthy (1859 - 1936) was an Irish author and nationalist politician. He was a Member of Parliament 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 authors, historians and Members of Parliament, they are sometimes confused in lists and compilations. McCarthy wrote various novels, plays, poetical pieces and short histories. He was briefly married to the actress Cissie...See more

Justin Huntly McCarthy (1859 - 1936) was an Irish author and nationalist politician. He was a Member of Parliament 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 authors, historians and Members of Parliament, they are sometimes confused in lists and compilations. 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. See less