{"id":2613,"date":"2020-09-16T10:23:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T16:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2020-09-16T10:23:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T16:23:13","slug":"the-immortal-irishman-the-irish-revolutionary-who-became-an-american-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2613","title":{"rendered":"The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Timothy Egan, 2016, Kindle Edition, Mariner Books<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what to think about this book.\u00c2\u00a0 It was somewhat interesting and had a lot of information about Thomas Meagher and his exploits, but didn&#8217;t really grab my attention as it should have.\u00c2\u00a0 The book was well researched but seemed to just get into it and then bounced to another subject or venue.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought it was pretty well written and covered the life of a fascinating individual who initiated a uprising in Ireland in 1948, was sent to a penal colony in Tasmania, fought in the U.S. Civil was as a Union general, and eventually became the governor of the Montana territory, but somehow didn&#8217;t quite get there.\u00c2\u00a0 I suspect that many others would read this book and think more highly of it and I wish I could too, but it just didn&#8217;t happen.\u00c2\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-5.gif\" alt=\"3.5 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Timothy Egan, 2016, Kindle Edition, Mariner Books I don&#8217;t know what to think about this book.\u00c2\u00a0 It was somewhat interesting and had a lot of information about Thomas Meagher and his exploits, but didn&#8217;t really grab my attention as <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2613\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17,16],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-biography","tag-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions\/2614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}