Title:
The Immortal Irishman : the Irish revolutionary who became an American hero
Author:
Egan, Timothy, author.
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9780544272880
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xv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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 temains of a life -- 22. River without end -- 23. Inquest for Ireland.
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