Joseph I. C. (Ignatius Constantine) Clarke (1846-1925) was born in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland, and died in The Bronx, New York. He was a journalist, poet, playwright, and author. He immigrated to the United States in 1868 and became the assistant editor of the Irish Times before joining the staff of the New York Herald in 1870, first as a journalist and later as an editor. He was an Irish nationalist and wrote several published articles, poems, plays, and books on topics concerning Irish identity and history.
In the spring of 1901, in the weeks before the Josephine Curtis Woodbury libel suit against Mary Baker Eddy was decided in Eddy's favor, Clarke traveled to Concord, New Hampshire, to report on the case. Not immediately being granted an interview with Eddy, Clarke wrote a highly sensational and disingenuous article repeating many of the negative accusations being made against her at that time. Before it was published, however, Eddy's student Alfred A. Farlow, who was serving as Committee on Publication, arranged for Clarke to interview Eddy in person at her Pleasant View home. At the interview, Clarke was favorably impressed with Eddy, and afterwards he wrote another article contradicting and refuting his prior statements about her. Confusingly, both articles were published in the New York Herald within the same week.
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Joseph I. C. (Ignatius Constantine) Clarke (1846-1925) was born in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland, and died in The Bronx, New York. He was a journalist, poet, playwright, and author. He immigrated to the United States in 1868 and became the assistant editor of the Irish Times before joining the staff of the New York Herald in 1870, first as a journalist and later as an editor. He was an Irish nationalist and wrote several published articles, poems, plays, and books on topics concerning Irish identity and history.
In the spring of 1901, in the weeks before the Josephine Curtis Woodbury libel suit against Mary Baker Eddy was decided in Eddy's favor, Clarke traveled to Concord, New Hampshire, to report on the case. Not immediately being granted an interview with Eddy, Clarke wrote a highly sensational and disingenuous article repeating many of the negative accusations being made against her at that time. Before it was published, however, Eddy's student Alfred A. Farlow, who was serving as Committee on Publication, arranged for Clarke to interview Eddy in person at her Pleasant View home. At the interview, Clarke was favorably impressed with Eddy, and afterwards he wrote another article contradicting and refuting his prior statements about her. Confusingly, both articles were published in the New York Herald within the same week.
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