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

Author: Timothy Egan Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, History, Non Fiction, Biographies Culture: Ireland Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780544944831 0544944836

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. Similar books: Michael Collins by Tim Pat Coogan The Man Who Saved the Union by H. W. Brands Rebel Yell by S. C. Gwynne Grant by Ron Chernow Reading the Man by Elizabeth Brown Pryor The Big Burn by Timothy Egan Abraham Lincoln by James M. McPherson John Brown, Abolitionist by David S. Reynolds Thomas Jefferson by Christopher Hitchens Fierce Patriot by Robert L. O'Connell The Graves Are Walking by John Kelly Irish History For Dummies by Mike Cronin Becoming Queen Victoria by Kate Williams Abigail Adams by Woody Holton Book of Ages by Jill Lepore Grant and Twain by Mark Perry Zeitoun by Dave Eggers The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin