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Japan at first hand, her islands, their people, the picturesque, the real, with latest facts and figures on their war-time trade expansion and commercial outreach
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Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke was an Irish-born American journalist and playwright. During his career, his work was associated with various periodicals including Irish Times, New York Herald, New York Morning Journal, and Criterion.
Background
Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke was born on July 31, 1846 at Kingstown (now called Dún Laoghaire), Ireland, the son of William and Ellen (Quinn) Clarke. His father, a barrister, died while James was still a small boy, and in 1858 the mother moved with her children to London.
Education
James attended several Catholic schools in Ireland. In London he managed to get a little more instruction, including some French and Latin.
Career
Clarke's first job was in London shop of the Queen’s Printers. In spare hours he explored the city, delighting as an imaginative boy would in its museums and galleries, its venerable buildings, and its ceaseless, surging crowds. In his sixteenth year he obtained, by a stroke of good luck, a sinecure in the Civil Service, and a career of unruffled though frugal respectability seemed opening before him when his Irish patriotism drew him in 1865 into the Fenian movement. For a time he was by day a sleek, top-hatted young clerk in the Home Office, and by night a hirsute, collarless ruffian who was one of the two “head centers” in London of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. He was working with admirable impartiality and efficiency for both Government and its enemies when the disastrous Clerkenwell explosion of December 13, 1867, which according to his own story he had done his best to prevent, aroused the authorities. Before long the trail led to his door. Clarke, however, was foolhardy enough to continue in his position, and when he did make his escape to Paris in February 1868 it was by a nip-and-tuck race with the police.
Paris offering at best a precarious livelihood, he went in April to New York, where he was met by his eldest brother Charles, and soon found work on the Irish Republic, a weekly paper. That autumn he was inveigled half-jokingly into making a speech or two for Grant and Colfax, attracted the attention of Republican managers, and was sent to Missouri on a speaking campaign. After the election he began writing at space rates for the New York Herald, was taken on the staff, went to the Pacific coast in 1871 to report a murder trial and to interview Brigham Young, and continued on the Herald until 1883, acting in turn as night, dramatic, literary, musical, and sporting editor, and displaying a resourcefulness and versatility that gave him a high reputation among newspapermen.
He was managing editor of Albert Pulitzer’s Morning Journal 1883-1895, editor of the Criterion, a literary and social weekly, 1898-1900, Sunday editor of the Herald 1903-1906, and publicity director of the Standard Oil Company 1906-1913. His career as a playwright began with Heartease (in collaboration with his friend Charles Klein) in 1896; his other stage plays were: For Bonnie Prince Charlie, The First Violin, Her Majesty, Lady Godiva, The Great Plumed Arrow, and The Prince of India.
He was also the author of: Robert Emmet, A Tragedy (1888), Malmorda, a Metrical Romance (1893), various occasional poems, and Japan at First Hand (1918), based on materials gathered during a trip to the Orient in 1914. His best-known poem, “The Fighting Race” (in the New York Sun, March 17, 1898) was prompted by the list of Irish dead in the battle-ship Maine. Its refrain: “Well, here’s thank God for the race and the sod! Said Kelly and Burke and Shea, ” was greatly admired in Irish-American literary circles. His last public appearance was at a dinner given in his honor at the Hotel Astor, February 28, 1924, by the American Irish Historical Society. He died a year later, after a lingering illness.