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The immortal Irishman the Irish revolutionary who became an American hero
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- ISBN: 9780544272477
- ISBN: 0544272471
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1 online resource (389 p.) - Publisher: New York, New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2016.
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| General Note: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: Last day, July 1, 1867 -- Part I: To be Irish in Ireland. Under the bootheel ; The becoming ; Poetry in action ; Pitchfork Paddies ; The meanest beggar in the world -- Part II: To be Irish in the Penal Colony. Island of the damned ; The traitor of Tasmania ; Flight -- Part III: To be Irish in America. Home and away ; Identity ; The fever ; War ; First blood ; The call, the fall ; Summer of slaughter ; Reasons to live and die ; The Green and the Blues ; A brigade no more ; A second banishment ; New Ireland ; The remains of a life ; River without end ; Inquest for Ireland. |
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In this exciting and illuminating work, National Book Award winner Timothy Egan delivers a story, both rollicking and haunting, of one of the most famous Irish Americans of all time. 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.
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'this is marvelous stuff. Thomas F. Meagher strides onto Egan's beautifully wrought pages just as he lived'powerfully larger than life. A fascinating account of an extraordinary life.' ' Daniel James Brown, author of The Boys in the Boat
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'thomas Meagher's is an irresistible story, irresistibly retold by the virtuosic Timothy Egan . . . A gripping, novelistic page-turner.' ' Wall Street Journal
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