Timothy Egan
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Language
English
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Spurred by his mother's death, Timothy Egan decided to take a pilgrimage and try to reconcile his own beliefs. He went on a thousand-mile journey along the Via Francigena leading to Rome. He delves into history, his own family's story, and his personal faith journey.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against...