Program Type:
Book Discussions - AdultAge Group:
AdultsProgram Description
Event Details
All are welcome to sign up for our monthly book discussion. Book discussions are held on the second Thursday of each month, and copies of the book will be loaned by the library when you sign up. Sign-up is required. Participants are asked to read the entire book before the scheduled session. Upcoming Book Discussions
This month's book discussion is The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan.
Summary: 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 British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony. He escaped and six months later was heralded in the streets of New York — the revolutionary hero, back from the dead, at the dawn of the great Irish immigration to America.