However, Thomas Francis Meagher, was an Irish revolutionary, a prisoner in Tasmania, a U. S. Civil War General, and the Governor of Montana.

Going through our photos the statue honoring him is visible in the photo of the 1,100-year-old Viking round tower, pointed out to us as still holding a cannonball from Cromwell’s rampage.Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize winning author of nine books, including THE WORST HARD TIME, which won the National Book Award. The saga of Thomas Meagher starts with his end, a disappearance of a nearly penniless acting governor off of a riverboat at night in Fort Benton, Montana, in 1867. But I hung on through the grim part, and once Marr fled captivity in Tasmania I was totally hooked.A well-researched and vivid story of a remarkable life: Thomas Francis Meagher, who was by turns an Irish poet, a young revolutionary, a convict in Tasmania, an escapee to the New World, a Union Army general, a governor of Montana Territory. Welcome back. Somehow, before that tragic end, Meagher managed to distinguish himself as a leader of the revolutionary Young Irelanders in the rebellion of 1848, be convIn prose of unusual grace, Timothy Egan tells the tale of The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero.

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I learned a lot about Irish/English history, the Australian penal colonies, the Civil War in America....all places Thomas Francis Meagher was a powerful and inspiring presence. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for sending me this ebook in return for an honest review. This is one such book. From Irish nationalist to prisoner in an Australian penal colony, then to America where he served as general in the Union army, Meagher's story is remarkable. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. And no, back of the book blurber, this is by no means "without a shadoBecause of the modified endnotes, it is impossible to tell what dialogue and feeling actually come from Thomas Francis Meagher, and what has been imagined by Egan with the familiar overwrought passion of those who discover Irish history and then take all of it Oh So Personally. I thought I knew something about Ireland and the Civil War but this book was a revelation.

If you ever need to investigate man's inhumanity towards man you need only read an Irish history book. His life spanned the Great Famine in Ireland, as a Leader of a failed revolt, to the prison island of Tasmania, where he made one of the few ever successful escapes, to the American Civil War, where he became a highly decorated General who had the ear of Lincoln, to the American West, where he became Governor of Montana! Even though I had never heard of Meagher before Egan's book, I gained from the reading a sense of what an immigrant goes through in reclaiming his or her life in a new land. ), winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, could have written multiple books about Meagher’s broad successes. However, Thomas Francis Meagher, was an Irish revolutionary, a prisoner in Tasmania, a U. S. Civil War General, and the Governor of Montana. The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero 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. Narrator, Gerald Doyle adds a nice touch by reciting this story with a bit of an Irish brogue which I found very tolerable and appropriate.I generally enjoy books about the life of a person who was well-known in his time, but has faded into history. The troubles, as my mother refers to the struggle for Irish sovereignty in typically Irish understatement, were appalling to say the least. An extraordinary book of a man that truly never gave up on his dream to free the populous of Ireland who had lived in chains for far to many years. He was imprisBiography is an exceptional art form especially when a unique life story is represented. When the Civil War comes he becomes the captain and chief recruiter of the Irish Brigade . Both as biography, and as a case study of Irish immigration in America, The Immortal Irishman is a saga no lover of history could possibly ignore. Thomas Meagher's story will definitely stay with me!Because of the modified endnotes, it is impossible to tell what dialogue and feeling actually come from Thomas Francis Meagher, and what has been imagined by Egan with the familiar overwrought passion of those who discover Irish history and then take all of it Oh So Personally. He was a man of many lives: the poet who led the Young Ireland revolution for a free Irish state; the political prisoner who watched his gallows getting built outside his cell window; the exile who was imprisoned on Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) and managed to escape from one of the most remote parts of earth; the Union general who led one of the most essential brigades of the American Civil War, composed entirely of Irish immigrants; the acting governor of the Montana territory seeking to create a New Ireland in the Far West for the millions of Irish Catholics driven from home by genocidal starvation at the hands of the English. I've read and listened to many good books this year, but this has to be one of my favorites. He was pardoned by Queen Victoria, after intense pressure from around the world, including the USA.Biography is an exceptional art form especially when a unique life story is represented.

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