First, the Vikings intermarried with the Irish, then the English invaders of 1169 also stayed on the conquered land, marrying Irish women.
Thereafter, Ireland would be a nation whose people were invariably oppressed.
The Pope disavowed the Irish Catholic Church and acknowledged Ireland’s submission to King Henry II of England. The beginning of Ireland’s oppression began, according to Egan, with Pope Adrian IV in 1155. Egan then turns to the history of Ireland, suggesting that Meagher and Ireland are one and the same. The biography begins with Meagher’s death, caused when he fell off a steamboat on the Missouri River, having been named the acting governor of Montana. Timothy Egan’s The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero (2016) is the riveting tale of a maverick Irish exile that championed the causes of his people on three continents throughout his lifetime.
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