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.
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.
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