The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

by Timothy Egan

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A dashing young orator during the Great Hunger of the 1840s, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony for life. But two years later he was "back from the dead" and in New York, instantly the most famous Irishman in America. Meagher's rebirth included his leading the newly formed Irish Brigade in many of the fiercest battles of the Civil War. Afterward, he tried to build a new Ireland in the wild west of Montana - a quixotic adventure that ended in the great mystery of his disappearance, which Egan resolves convincingly at last.
  • ISBN10 0544272471
  • ISBN13 9780544272477
  • Publish Date 1 March 2016
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Mariner Books
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 384
  • Language English