THE story of American history would be barren and incomplete if the contributions of the nation's immigrants were not included in the saga. The story of the Irish experience in America can have no more colorful narrator than Thomas Francis Meagher. Born to privilege in Ireland, Meagher could not bear the injustices inflicted upon the Irish people, who were treated as if they were tenants in their own country. His commitment to the uprising of the...
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