{"product_id":"2940169817348","title":"The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeagher'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hero's last chapter, as territorial governor of Montana, was a romantic quest for a true home in the far frontier. His death has long been a mystery to which Egan brings haunting, colorful new evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104768737520,"sku":"2940169817348","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169817348_p0.jpg?v=1763695076","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169817348","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}