The immortal Irishman: the Irish revolutionary who became an American hero
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From the National Book Award&;winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America.   The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony. He escaped and six months later was heralded in the streets of New York &; the revolutionary hero, back from the dead, at the dawn of the great Irish immigration to America.  Meagher&;s rebirth in America included his leading the newly formed Irish Brigade from New York in many of the fiercest battles of the Civil War &; Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg. Twice shot from his horse while leading charges, left for dead in the Virginia mud, Meagher&;s dream was that Irish-American troops, seasoned by war, would return to Ireland and liberate their homeland from British rule.   The hero's last chapter, as territorial governor of Montana, was a romantic quest for a true home in the far frontier. His death has long been a mystery to which Egan brings haunting, colorful new evidence.
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19th Century
19th Century -- United States
Adventurers & Explorers
Adventurers & Explorers -- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
American Civil War (1861-1865)
Armed Forces
Armed Forces -- Officers
Australia & New Zealand
Australia & New Zealand -- HISTORY
Biographies
Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/Social Activists
Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Civil War Period (1850-1877) -- United States
Downloadable e-Books
Electronic books
Generals
Generals -- United States -- Biography
Governors
Governors -- Montana -- Biography
Heroes
Heroes -- United States -- Biography
Historical
Historical -- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
History
HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand
HISTORY/Australia & Oceania
HISTORY / Europe / Ireland
HISTORY/Ireland
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Ireland
Ireland -- Europe
Irish Americans
Irish Americans -- Biography
Meagher, Thomas Francis
Meagher, Thomas Francis, -- 1823-1867
Montana
Nonfiction
Officers
Prisoners
Prisoners -- Australia -- Tasmania -- Biography
Revolutionaries
Revolutionaries -- Ireland -- Biography
Social Activists
Social Activists -- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Tasmania
United States
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography
United States. -- Army
United States. -- Army -- Officers -- Biography
United States. -- Army of the Potomac. -- Irish Brigade
West
West -- State & Local
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title_full | The Immortal Irishman The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero The Immortal Irishman The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero [electronic resource] Egan, Timothy. The immortal Irishman : the Irish revolutionary who became an American hero / Timothy Egan The immortal Irishman : the Irish revolutionary who became an American hero [electronic resource] / Timothy Egan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | The immortal Irishman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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