The immortal Irishman: the Irish revolutionary who became an American hero [First Mariner books edition] 9780544272880, 9780544272477, 9780544944831, 0544944836

Table of contents :
Last day, July 1, 1867 --
To be Irish in Ireland. Under the bootheel
The becoming
Poetry in action
Pitchfork paddies
The meanest beggar in the world --
To be Irish in the penal colony. Island of the Damned
The traitor of Tasmania
Flight --
To Be Irish in America. Home and away
Identity
The fever
War
First blood
The call, the fall
Summer of slaughter
Reasons to live and die
The green and the blues
A brigade no more
A second banishment
New Ireland
The remains of a life
River without end
Inquest for Ireland.

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