![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He makes an implausible escape and ends up in New York City, where he gains notoriety for political journalism and public speaking and marries a daughter of a prominent Protestant industrialist. A man who gained fame as a voice of rebellion at the time of the potato famine in the 1840s, leading to his conviction for sedition and banished to the penal colony of Tasmania. Egan’s summary bits on the life of a man I’d never heard of hooks me to become eager for the story to rectify that ignorance. Was it an accident from a drunken stumble or murder from enemies he complained to the captain about (“Johnny, they threaten my life in that town.”). The saga of Thomas Meagher starts with his end, a disappearance of a nearly penniless acting governor off of a riverboat at night in Fort Benton, Montana, in 1867. A biography that reads like an adventure novel. ![]()
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