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Author Egan, Timothy.

Title The immortal Irishman : the Irish revolutionary who became an American hero / Timothy Egan.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1671091~S1
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Description xv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-352) and index.
Contents Introduction: Last day, July 1, 1867 -- Part I: To be Irish in Ireland -- 1. Under the bootheel -- 2. The becoming -- 3. Poetry in action -- 4. Pitchfork paddies -- 5. The meanest beggar in the world -- Part II: To be Irish in the Penal Colony -- 6. Island of the damned -- 7. The traitor of Tasmania -- 8. Flight -- Part III: To be Irish in America -- 9. Home and away -- 10. Identity -- 11. The fever -- 12. War -- 13. First blood -- 14. The call, the fall -- 15. Summer of slaughter -- 16. Reasons to live and die -- 17. The green and the blues -- 18. A brigade no more -- 19. A second banishment -- 20. New Ireland -- 21. The remains of a life -- 22. River without end -- 23. Inquest for Ireland.
Subject Meagher, Thomas Francis, 1823-1867.
Generals -- United States -- Biography.
Heroes -- United States -- Biography.
Irish Americans -- Biography.
Revolutionaries -- Ireland -- Biography.
Prisoners -- Australia -- Tasmania -- Biography.
Governors -- Montana -- Biography.
United States. Army -- Officers -- Biography.
United States. Army of the Potomac. Irish Brigade.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 9780544272880 (hardcover)
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