SOURCE: "James Gibbons Huneker," in Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, Vol. XX, 1921, pp. 221-28.

In the following essay, Clarke delineates Huneker's Gaelic background and interest in Irish writers.

No loss to literature, above all to American literature in recent years compares to the void left by the passing away of James Gibbons Huneker on February 10, 1921 in New York. To our ordinary mind contemplating the world of art and letters, it is the passing of the poet, the dramatist, the master story-teller, the historian, the painter, the sculptor, the singer, the actor, the musical composer, which covers the artistic personalities whose death makes men pause and lament that a fount of light and beauty to the world has disappeared. The death of James Gibbons Huneker proved that in literature there was another stamp of greatness whose effulgence fairly dazzled and delighted every man and woman capable, however...