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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 .
McCarthy, Justin Huntly (1856–1936), writer and politician, was born in Liverpool, on 30 September 1856, son of the writer and politician Justin McCarthy (qv) and his wife, Charlotte (d. 1879), daughter of William George Allman of Bandon, Co. Cork.
It is based on the 1901 play and novel, both of the same name, by Justin Huntly McCarthy, and was directed by Frank Lloyd, with a screenplay adaptation by Preston Sturges.
Like his father (also Justin McCarthy) he was for a time an Irish nationalist M.P. He wrote novels, verse, translations of “Omar Khayyam” and other works, and histories of England, Ireland, the French Revolution and the United States.
Justin Huntly was a writer, known for The Fighting O'Flynn (1949), The Vagabond King (1930) and The Vagabond King (1956). Justin Huntly was married to Loullie Killick and Cecilia Loftus. Justin Huntly died on 21 March 1936 in Putney, London, England, UK.
- Writer
- September 30, 1860
- Justin Huntly McCarthy
- March 21, 1936
Justin Huntly McCarthy. 4.09. 45 ratings10 reviews. In the dark main room of the Fircone Tavern the warm June air seemed to have lost all its delicacy, like a degraded angel.
Dominic Daly, The Young Douglas Hyde (Shannon IUP 1974), Justin Huntly [sic] McCarthy, ‘The Irish Language and Literature’, praises together with the classical body of Irish legend and the ‘phantasy’ and ‘sad sweetness’ of the tale of Oisin, McHale’s trans. of Homer, ‘One of the finest translations of the Iliad, or rather a ...
