Twice shot from his horse while leading charges, left for dead in the Leading the newly formed Irish Brigade from New York in many of theįiercest battles of the Civil War - Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg. Meagher’s rebirth in America included his Hero, back from the dead, at the dawn of the great Irish immigration to Months later was heralded in the streets of New York - the revolutionary Which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony. Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for A dashing young orator during the Greatįamine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through The National Book Award–winning and best-selling author Timothy EganĬomes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful
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