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Thomas Francis Meagher And the Irish Brigade in the Civil War
Daniel M. Callaghan Manufacturer: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 078642401X |
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When President Abraham Lincoln issued his call to arms in 1861, the 63rd, 69th and 88th New York Volunteers were among the first to step forward to defend the Union. Comprised primarily of first and second generation Irish immigrants, these three regiments were later joined by the 28th Massachusetts and the 116th Pennsylvania. Although many of these Irish men were decidedly antiLincolnblaming the northern abolitionists as much as the southern rebels for the nations plightthey worked around their dilemma by pledging their allegiance to their new country and its flag rather than its president. Suffering heavy casualties, this Irish Brigade under the command of Thomas Francis Meagher became one of the most legendary fighting groups of the Civil War. This work provides a balanced, historically factual picture of the Irish Brigade and its commander by re-examining and re-interpreting existing accounts. It presents an unbiased account of the role that the Brigade played in the confrontations, during the Seven Days battles, at Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. The author examines the ways in which contemporary sources distorted the historical actualities regarding the Irish Brigadeattempting to write into the annals of legend a story which needed no embellishmentand the tempering effect which chronological distance has produced, resulting in more critical and dispassionate publications. The effect of politics and political manipulation on the Irish regiments is also discussed. Sources range from memoirs published by brigade veterans in the years immediately following the war to letters and memoirs published as recently as 1996.
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THE THUNDER MAKER GENERAL THOMAS MEAGHER
Manufacturer: Bruce Publishing First Edition ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000GABTSG |
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The River's Edge: Libby Townsend Meagher and Thomas Francis Meagher Their Love Story
Lenore McKelvey Puhek Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0595378471 |
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Of the chapters I have been privileged to read, you have created a stunning, beautiful story, the best you've ever done, and I enjoyed every word. You wrote magic. Richard S. Wheeler, author of over fifty historical novels and winner of the Owen Wister Award and several Western Writers of America Spur AwardsAs was the custom, Libby and Thomas had retired to the parlor after the Sunday meal. A roaring fire warmed the room as Libby set a newly acquired Ming vase, a Christmas present from her mother, on the mantle piece. When she turned around, Thomas surprised her by dropping to one knee and taking both of her delicate hands into his larger ones. Libby, ta me i ngra leat. An bPósfaibh tú mé? And not waiting for a translation, Libby said, Yes. When she heard Thomas professing his love for her and proposing in Irish, it was music coming from his soul to hers. The arrival of the love letter the next day, cemented her commitment and future to the only man she would ever love.
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The River's Edge, A Great 19th Century Love Story.......2006-03-05
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The Summer House Trilogy (Common Reader Editions)
Alice Thomas Ellis , and Alice Thomas Ellis Manufacturer: Akadine Press, The ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1585790281 |
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A sharp comedy of marriage, motherhood, and scandal, filled with mordant wit and moral philosophy. Its constituent novels The Clothes in the Wardrobe (1987), The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1988), and The Fly in the Ointment (1989) describe from three points of view the circumstances surrounding a wedding which, at the last minute, fortunately fails to take place. Basis for the 1993 film. With a new Afterword by Thomas Meagher.Customer Reviews:
Let Them Say It Themselves.......2004-03-29
Margaret is a young woman about to be married. She lives with her mother, Monica, a woman who was deceived and divorced from Margaret's father, Derek. Monica has lived her life through Margaret since the divorce, and Margaret is shrewd enough to note this. Monica is planning Margaret's wedding as she has planned her entire life. She does not listen nor does she want to understand Margaret. Margaret was sexually abused by her father as a very young child. This has never been spoken about but is the probable cause of Margaret's depressive state. She is too quiet, too good, too boring. Margaret is just back from spending time in Egypt with one of Monica's old school chums, Marie Claire. Margaret was homesick but had time to develop a crush on Marie Claire's son, Nour. That is, until she found Nour with the body of a dead woman. Once back, Margaret became unwittingly engaged to Syl, a contemporary of her mother's. How did this happen? He asked her to marry him, and she did not say no. She is very unhappy with this engagement, and everyone knows something is wrong. Life goes on, Margaret is too unhappy, too depressed to stand up for herself, it is not worth the torment her mother would put her through.
Mrs. Munro is Syl's mother. He loves her, but everyone else thinks she is a sour puss,, and someone to be tolerated. Mrs. Munro lives with Syl and a dog named Dog, The dog is as troublesome as Mrs. Munro is. Syl has made an apartment just for her. She does not like the apartment; she wants her old home back. But she is old and this is also Syl's home. Mrs. Munro had a fairly happy life alone. She was married to Jack, Syl's father. Jack was a womanizer, and Mrs. Munro did not really like him, another tolerated soul. Mrs. Munro does not think that Margaret should marry Syl. She likes Margaret, but she too, understands that something is not quite right. Margaret does not love Syl. This wedding must not go on. One woman likes and understands Mrs. Munro and that is Lili. Lili visits everyday and the two form a friendship of sorts.
Lili is also a school chum of Monica's. She is married to Robert, an artist. They have a marriage of convenience and maybe of love. Each of them has had affairs, which are not discussed. Robert makes Lili feel insecure and that was not a feeling she liked. She was a woman who was always in control and in charge. She was a beautiful woman with red, curly hair,lovely skin and a sense of style. Margaret liked and admired Lili. She would talk in little bits and pieces about her life and what she wanted. Lili listened and she knew she had to act. Someone had to help Margaret out of this mess she found herself in. Margaret wanted to be a nun, which certainly suits her more than a loveless marriage. Lili wanted a life of money and ease and had found neither, but now, someone was counting on her. And, so Lili danced. Dancing is Lili's way of solving problems and a synonym for sex.
This elegant, entertaining book is reassuring in some ways. There are people in the world who understand their position, and are there to assist the downtrodden. This mismatched couple who have nothing in common except a planned wedding. Lili, the woman who will change things in a spectacular fashion! prisrob
A Unique Commentary on Marriage, Motherhood & Secrets.......2004-03-20
Ms. Ellis writes this penetrating character study with wit, irony and, at times, great poignancy. Margaret, a young English woman returns home after a dramatic and traumatic visit with family friends in Egypt. She finds herself suddenly, unhappily engaged to the man next door, Syl, who is twice her age. Margaret lives with her domineering mother whose husband abandoned her for another years ago. Syl lives with his mother, Mrs. Monro, a strong figure who also had difficulties in her marriage and is aware that death is not far off. Lili, an old friend of Margaret's mother, enters center stage, acting as a catalyst to stir up memories, secrets and events to come.
Ms. Ellis insightfully explores the human drama and the various forms of love with sensitivity and a unique gentleness. Her character development is extraordinary. She creates three totally different women, interconnected through friendship, marriage and love, and gives them tremendous depth. I highly recommend this beautifully written trilogy.
JANA
"The honeymoon will soon put the roses back in her cheeks.".......2004-03-05
From Margaret we learn of her passionate first love and a shocking death that have occurred during the year she spent away at school in Egypt. Devoutly religious, Margaret is torn between the concepts of romantic and religious love, and she cannot seem to reconcile the church's teachings regarding love, sex, sin, and death. Mrs. Monro, an elderly lady for whom death is very real, if not imminent, is hiding secrets associated with her own past love life. For her, too, love is associated with death and God, though in ways vastly different from Margaret's experience. Into this mix comes Lili, half Egyptian, half English, a free spirit unconcerned with traditional, churchly definitions of sin, and sexually liberated in her own life. Lili is determined to save Margaret from the "pointless secular martyrdom" of marriage.
A sensitive, philosophical exploration of love and sex, God and sin, and life and death, the novel is also an examination of the compromises people make, willingly or unwillingly, in order to find happiness during their lives and loves. Sparkling dialogue and thoughtful interior monologues reveal the sadness, loneliness, and confusion within many of the characters, while Ellis's sense of irony and ability to create absurd scenes lift the mood with cathartic comedy. Gently satirical and full of wise observations, this is an insightful and thoroughly entertaining study of several characters, interconnected by love and marriage, as they try to "muddle through." Mary Whipple
Laughter amid some of life's darkest tragedies.......2004-02-06
Ellis is a master storyteller.......2003-09-12
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Thomas Francis Meagher: The Making Of An Irish American (Irish Abroad)
Manufacturer: Irish Academic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0716528134 |
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T.F. Meagher; An Enigma........2006-03-20
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Fairy Tale (Common Reader Editions)
Alice Thomas Ellis Manufacturer: Akadine Press, The ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1888173408 |
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Imagine Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White, and Morgan Le Fey folded into one story and you'll have some idea of Alice Thomas Ellis's quirky novel, Fairy Tale. Set in the wooded hills and remote valleys of Wales, Ellis's modern-day romance follows the fortunes of young Eloise and her paramour, Simon, as they leave promising careers in London behind and adopt, instead, a rural life. Simon, who had a future in advertising, becomes a woodworker, while Eloise makes her living sewing chic clothing out of old lace. Despite their idyllic surroundings, Eloise is beginning to feel bored by the quiet life--so much so that she wishes for a baby to give her life purpose. Be careful what you wish for, Eloise--the magic begins when four mysterious men appear in Eloise's garden just as she pricks her finger with a needle, dripping a drop of blood onto her white lace. Before you can say "Magic Mirror on the Wall," all kinds of fey events begin to happen: Eloise disappears on long walks in the woods, one time emerging bone dry from a stroll in a rainstorm, another time returning home with a mysterious green-eyed, silver-haired baby.Readers will understand that the characters in this novel are not what they seem far sooner than Eloise and Simon do; nevertheless, half the fun in this moonstruck novel is Ellis's juxtaposition of her oblivious human characters with her all-too-aware--and slightly scary--fairy ones. Light, slightly satirical, impeccably written, this is one Fairy Tale meant for adults.
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What might seem quaint, simply aint...........2006-11-13
"I'm sick of the smell of fresh air.".......2005-09-26
Contains a Scene of Superb Comic Genius.......2004-02-06
self-indulgent.......2002-11-27
kinky take on a fairytale.......2001-03-31
She goes off for a walk one day through the fields and returns with a baby that she insists is her own. And it just gets odder from there!
This is just a wonderful read, perfect for settling down in a comfy spot on a wintry day and devouring.
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The Exile
Richard S. Wheeler Manufacturer: Forge Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0312878478 |
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homas Francis Meagher was a disturber of the peace. Banished from his native Ireland for sedition and exiled to remote Van Diemen's Land, an island off the south Australian coast, he escaped imprisonment and reached New York in 1852. Feted as 'Meagher of the Sword,' he became an irresistible voice in Tammany politics, campaigning for Franklin Pierce and sitting for an interview by Horace Greeley. But Meagher's real passion was for his home country's separation from British rule and he traveled the US lecturing endlessly for his cause. To his roles as revolutionary, lecturer, lawyer, and news-paperman, Meagner added soldier when he fought for the Union in the Civil War. At the vanguard of his Irish Brigade he fought valiantly at Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville, but ended the war broken in spirit and ruined professionally. After winning a minor appointment as secretary to the governor of Montana Territory, the great warrior found himself embroiled in territorial problems-an absentee government, the nefarious work of a powerful vigilance committee, and dangerous issues with the Indian tribes of the region. In July, 1867, in the eighteenth year of his exile from his beloved Ireland, Thomas Meagher disappeared while traveling on a river steamer and was given up as drowned. Richard S. Wheeler solves this mystery in his moving, meticulously researched novel.Customer Reviews:
The Exile.......2005-12-05
Meagher of the Sword.......2004-01-28
Irish rebels were a tough lot because they had to be, resisting oppression and starvation with few resources except will and spirit. Thomas Francis Meagher made enough trouble to be transported to the penal colonies in Australia but they didn't hold him long. The book begins as he escapes.
Meagher -- son of a gentleman, Lord Mayor of Waterford, M.P. -- lands in Boston and Washington where the signs say "no Irish need apply." Unable to find either a job or a political "position," he makes his living by lecturing until the Civil War gobbles him up.
It is as much a story of the Irish as of Meagher. Starved into leaving their green home, they came grieving to the new country to be rejected, crowded out, treated like beasts, and used as cannon fodder. The Green Brigade with its green flag, embroidered with a golden harp, went first into the worst of the battles. When their flag was shot to bits, Meagher taught them to wear a sprig of green boxwood in their hats, but often it was the soldiers who were also shot to bits.
Afterwards Meagher ends up in a place that in those days was not much more hospitable than Australia: Montana territory where he was acting governor in the days of gold strikes, vigilantes, and Indian massacres. Before he could find his footing, he was lost overboard in the night from a steamship tied up on the Missouri at Fort Benton. His body was never found. Killed by enemies or betrayed by friends? Or simply too drunk to keep from falling overboard?
Meagher of the Sword, they called him, and his statue today stands in front of the Montana capitol building where he sits a horse and brandishes a sword overhead. (The sculptor's name was Mulligan, don't ye know?) Is it a mistaken monument or was the man a deserving patriot? This book won't tell you, but it will give you plenty of evidence to turn over in your mind.
It's a story to be told by someone who can make the battles clear and sketch out the lines of contention among a dozen tangled parties. Wheeler can do this. The book is far beyond being a genre historical novel. Wheeler has done five-finger exercies long enough -- they pay off in this concerto.
Reader's Review of The Exile.......2004-01-19
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Brigadier-General Thomas Francis Meagher, his political and military career: With selections from his speeches and writings
W. F Lyons Manufacturer: Archer Editions Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 089097005X |
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Handbook on College Teaching
Linda D. Meagher , and Thomas G. Devine Manufacturer: Hollowbrook Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0893416371 |
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The Irish brigade
Paul John Jones Manufacturer: R. B. Luce ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006CU2BY |
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