“Thomas Meagher’s is an irresistible story, irresistibly retold by the virtuosic Timothy Egan. A fascinating account of an extraordinary life.” - Daniel James Brown, author of The Boys in the Boat From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and. Meagher strides onto Egan's beautifully wrought pages just as he lived-powerfully larger than life. 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. Meagher’s rebirth included his leading the newly formed Irish Brigade in many of the fiercest battles of the Civil War. But two years later he was “back from the dead” and in New York, instantly the most famous Irishman in America. 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. 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. This is masterly work.” - New York Times Book Review

and he has a journalist’s eye for the telltale detail. You will not read a historical thriller like this all year. The story of Thomas Francis Meagher Irish revolutionary, exile, American Civil War general, and eventual governor of the Montana Territory has long deserved to be told. 'An old-fashioned tale of tall talk, high ideals,and irresistible appeal. The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero By Timothy Egan Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (March 2016) 384 pages.

The immortal irishman by timothy egan