Thomas Francis Meagher: The Making of an Irish American.
Author: HEARNE, John M. & CORNISH, Rory T. (Editors).
Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006. xvii, 254 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.
This book offers 13 essays on the life and times of the Waterford-born Thomas Francis Meagher, who was sentenced to death for his part in the Irish rising of 1848, but whose sentence was later commuted to transportation to Tasmania. Escaping from there, he went to America, where he became a Brigadier-General in the Union army during the American Civil War. He accidentally drowned in the Missouri in 1867.
CONTENTS
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Roy Foster
1. An Introduction
Rory T. Cornish and John M. Hearne2. Genealogy, Geography, and Social Mobility: The Family Background of Thomas Francis Meagher
John Mannion3. From the Shadow of his Son: ‘Honest Thomas Meagher’–The Father of an Irish patriot
Eugene Broderick4. Thomas Francis Meagher: Reluctant Revolutionary
John M. Hearne5. The Final Days of Meagher’s Irish Uprising
William Nolan6. O’Meagher in Australia
Elaine Sullivan7. ‘Saving the South With All My Might’: John Mitchel, Champion of Southern Nationalism
Michael Toomey8. An Irish Republican Abroad: Thomas Francis Meagher in the United States, 1852-65
Rory T. Cornish9. The Lost Leader? Thomas Francis Meagher and the Fenian Brotherhood
Pat McCarthy10. ‘With Courage and Undaunted Obstinacy’: Meagher in Montana, 1865-1867
Jon Axline11. Thomas Francis Meagher in Love and War: A Narrative History
David Smith12. The Strange Death of Thomas Francis Meagher: Tribal Politics in Territorial Montana
David Emmons13. Meagher Memorabilia on Display at the Waterford Museum of Treasures
Eamonn McEneaney and John M. Hearne
Index
ISBN: 0716528134
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