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James Jeffrey Roche was an American poet, journalist and consul born on 31. 05. 1847 in Ireland
Background
James Jeffrey Roche was born on May 31, 1847 at Mountmellick, Queen's County, Ireland from which place his parents emigrated to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Here his father taught mathematics, conducted a school, and became provincial librarian.
Education
James was educated by his father and at St. Dunstan's College.
Career
In 1866 he went to Boston, where he made friends easily in Irish circles and succeeded in a business way. In 1883, he became assistant editor of the Boston Pilot, which had long been the leading Irish Catholic journal in the United States. Seven years later he succeeded John Boyle O'Reilly as editor and as the idol of a Catholic intellectual group in Boston. A man of humor and generous social qualities, he became a leader in the St. Botolph and Papyrus Clubs, where the sons of old New England enjoyed his romances and cherished his friendship. While not a violent Irish partisan, he was, however, an intense nationalist, keenly concerned with the uplifting of the Irish in America. In 1904, he welcomed an appointment as consul at Genoa from the hands of President Theodore Roosevelt as a relief from business worries and from a severe climate which made his delicate health more precarious. His life was prolonged for four years but the end came at Berne in the Alps where he was then consul. He contributed much to the Pilot and to other periodicals, including the Atlantic, Century, and Harpers, and was the author of a stirring novel of adventure, The Story of the Filibusters (1891), translated into Spanish (1908), and reissued as By-Ways of War: the Story of the Filibusters (1901), which Richard Harding Davis described as a classic. He published a Life of John Boyle O'Reilly (1891) and contributed an introduction to Henry B. Carpenter's A Poet's Last Songs (1891), and a biographical and critical introduction to The Collected Writings of Samuel Lover (10 vols. , 1901 - 13). He edited Thackeray's The Mahogany Tree (1887), and with Justin McCarthy, Lady Gregory, Maurice Francis Egan, and Douglas Hyde, he collaborated in preparing Irish Literature (10 vols. , 1904). In his Songs and Satires (1886), Her Majesty the King; a Romance of the Harem (1898), Ballads of Blue Water and Other Poems (1895), The V-a-s-e and Other Bric-. .. -Brac (1900), and The Sorrows of Sap'ed (1904), Roche displayed a delicate touch, sweetness of voice, humorous satire, and ringing patriotism as a balladist.
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Politics
While not a violent Irish partisan, he was, however, an intense nationalist, keenly concerned with the uplifting of the Irish in America.
Personality
A man of humor and generous social qualities, he became a leader in the St. Botolph and Papyrus Clubs, where the sons of old New England enjoyed his romances and cherished his friendship.
Connections
He was twice married: first, to Mary Halloran, who died in 1885, and second, in 1904, to Mrs. Elizabeth Vaughan Okie.