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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Egan, Timothy.     Subjects     Meagher, Thomas Francis, 1823-1867.     United States. Army of the Potomac. Irish Brigade.     United States. Army -- Officers -- Biography.     Prisoners -- Australia -- Tasmania -- Biography.     Governors -- Montana -- Biography.     Irish Americans -- Biography.     Revolutionaries -- Ireland -- Biography.     Heroes -- United States -- Biography.     Generals -- United States -- Biography.     United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography     Browse Catalog     by author:      Egan, Timothy.       by title:      The immortal Irishma...       by call number:      355.0092 M482e     Search the Web     Egan, Timothy.     Meagher, Thomas Francis, 1823-1867.     United States. Army of the Potomac. Irish Brigade.     United States. Army -- Officers -- Biography.     Prisoners -- Australia -- Tasmania -- Biography.     Governors -- Montana -- Biography.     Irish Americans -- Biography.     Revolutionaries -- Ireland -- Biography.     Heroes -- United States -- Biography.     Generals -- United States -- Biography.     United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography       MARC Display

The immortal Irishman : the Irish revolutionary who became an American hero / Timothy Egan. by Egan, Timothy. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2016. Call #: 355.0092 M482e Subjects Meagher, Thomas Francis, 1823-1867.   United States. Army of the Potomac. Irish Brigade.   United States. Army -- Officers -- Biography.   Prisoners -- Australia -- Tasmania -- Biography.   Governors -- Montana -- Biography.   Irish Americans -- Biography.   Revolutionaries -- Ireland -- Biography.   Heroes -- United States -- Biography.   Generals -- United States -- Biography.   United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography ISBN:  9780544272880 (hc.) 0544272889 (hc.) Description:  xv, 368 p. : ill., port. ; 24 cm Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-352) and index. Contents:  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. Summary:  "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 - a 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"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Biography 355.0092 M482e Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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