ISBN: 9780959574654
Blackgum Item Code: SH15
Title: in price 15Nov07 to $4.95
Author: Reg Watson
Imprint: Southern Holdings
RRP: $4.95
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Thomas Francis Meagher, (bn 1821) was an Irishman who was exiled for his illegal political activities, to the penal settlement of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). His father, was the first Catholic Mayor of Waterford for two hundred years. Whilst on the island, Thomas was allotted a district in which he was allowed relative freedom. He married a beautiful Tasmanian girl, Catherine (Bennie) Bennett. Meagher, restless to carry on the fight for his political goals, escaped from the island (1852) to seek refuge in the United States.