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Name: The Immortal Irishman
Full title: The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
Author: Timothy Egan
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Genres/categories: Award winners, History, Non Fiction, Biographies
Culture: Ireland

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ISBN:
9780544944831
0544944836
Winner of the Montana Book Award in 2016.

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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