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Ailill wrote:Most of the leaders of the 1848 Young Ireland rebellion wet on to great things. One was a governor of a US sate and one a governor of an Australian state, I think.

Meagher was actually Territorial Governor of Montana, I think, after the Civil War, and there is a statue of him outside the state house. He drowned in the Montana River?? I think it was, and his body was never recovered.

Here you go....

*Thomas Francis Meagher Brigadier General, United States Army
and Governor of Montana.
*Terrence McManus Brigadier General, United States Army.
*Patrick Donahue Brigadier General, United States Army.
*Richard O'Gorman Governor General of Newfoundland.
*Morris Lyene Attorney General of Australia, in which office
*Michael Ireland succeeded him.
*Thomas D'Arcy McGee Member of Parliament, Montreal,
Minister of Agriculture and
President Council, Dominion of Canada.
*John Mitchell A prominent New York politician.
This man was the father of
*John Purroy Mitchell, Mayor of New York City
at the outbreak of World War I .