The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: ebook
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780544272477
Description: "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."--