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Timothy Egan

Thomas Meagher: The Immortal Irishman

By Timothy Egan

March 25, 2016 by 2 Comments

In the following excerpt from Timothy Egan’s new book on Thomas Meagher, the legendary Irishman arrives in New York City having escaped from the Tasmanian prison colony where he had been banished for his part in the failed 1848 rebellion. He had seen half the world from a ship’s deck, and yet nothing prepared him for how many of the earth’s uprooted strivers had stuffed … [Read more...] about Thomas Meagher: The Immortal Irishman

A Q+A with Timothy Egan, Author of The Immortal Irishman

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
April / May 2016

March 25, 2016 by 1 Comment

Timothy Egan (born November 8, 1954 in Seattle, Washington) has written eight books including the newly released Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero, about Thomas Francis Meagher. His book, The Worst Hard Time, about people who lived through the Great Depression’s Dust Bowl, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. A Pulitzer Prize- winning … [Read more...] about A Q+A with Timothy Egan, Author of The Immortal Irishman

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