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I've never used Fireplace, so I can't speak to the comparison. But CIDER (the Emacs Clojure IDE) is an utter joy to use - I can't recommend it enough. If you do try it out, I would be interested to hear how it compares to Fireplace.

I learned Clojure and Emacs at the same time, and I have to say that it tested my patience. You need to reset your mind to expect to move slowly for a week or two. With that said, I'm really happy with my current setup, except for days when emacs pinky comes. You can mitigate that with Key Chords [0] and mapping Caps Lock to Control. Emacs' CIDER is the de-facto Clojure(Script) dev environment.

[0] - https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/KeyChord

Also a Vim (NeoVim) user. I've been curious about Clojure and I've learned that there's a plugin called Conjure that's suppose to be pretty good. I've yet to try it myself but, might be something to look into. https://github.com/Olical/conjure