A distant shore :
Irish migration & New Zealand settlement /
A distant shore : Irish migration & New Zealand settlement /
Irish migration & New Zealand settlement
edited by Lyndon Fraser.
- 196 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
- Otago History series .
- Otago history series. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-188) and index.
No petty people : Pakeha history and the historiography of the Irish diaspora / Varieties of New Zealand Irishness : a meditation / Invisible Irish? : re-discovering the Irish Protestant tradition in colonial New Zealand / Irish migration to New Zealand to 1915 / Irish on the Otago goldfields, 1861-71 / Irish migration to the West Coast, 1864-1900 / In prospect of a happier future : private letters and Irish women's migration to New Zealand, 1840-1925 / Shaming the shoneens : the Green Ray and the Maoriland Irish Society in Dunedin, 1916-22 / Importance of being Irish : Hibernianism in New Zealand, 1869-1969 / Donald Harman Akenson -- Patrick O'Farrell -- Alasdair Galbraith -- Terry Hearn -- Terry Hearn -- Lyndon Fraser -- Angela McCarthy -- Seán Brosnahan -- Rory Sweetman.
""A distant shore" tells the dramatic story of Irish migration to New Zealand in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In a series of essays written by leading scholars in the field, it offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives and experiences of thee newcomers as they left post-Famine Ireland and made their way to a destination "half the world from home". It uses many sources, including letterrs from migrants to their families in Ireland, and also looks at the history of Irish organisations in New Zealand, both Catholic and Protestant." -- Back cover.
1877133973 $39.95
Irish--History.--New Zealand
Immigrants--History.--New Zealand
Irish--Ethnic identity.--New Zealand
Irish--Societies, etc.
Ireland--Emigration and immigration--History.
New Zealand--Emigration and immigration--History.
Ireland--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
New Zealand--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
New Zealand--History--19th century.
New Zealand--History--20th century.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-188) and index.
No petty people : Pakeha history and the historiography of the Irish diaspora / Varieties of New Zealand Irishness : a meditation / Invisible Irish? : re-discovering the Irish Protestant tradition in colonial New Zealand / Irish migration to New Zealand to 1915 / Irish on the Otago goldfields, 1861-71 / Irish migration to the West Coast, 1864-1900 / In prospect of a happier future : private letters and Irish women's migration to New Zealand, 1840-1925 / Shaming the shoneens : the Green Ray and the Maoriland Irish Society in Dunedin, 1916-22 / Importance of being Irish : Hibernianism in New Zealand, 1869-1969 / Donald Harman Akenson -- Patrick O'Farrell -- Alasdair Galbraith -- Terry Hearn -- Terry Hearn -- Lyndon Fraser -- Angela McCarthy -- Seán Brosnahan -- Rory Sweetman.
""A distant shore" tells the dramatic story of Irish migration to New Zealand in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In a series of essays written by leading scholars in the field, it offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives and experiences of thee newcomers as they left post-Famine Ireland and made their way to a destination "half the world from home". It uses many sources, including letterrs from migrants to their families in Ireland, and also looks at the history of Irish organisations in New Zealand, both Catholic and Protestant." -- Back cover.
1877133973 $39.95
Irish--History.--New Zealand
Immigrants--History.--New Zealand
Irish--Ethnic identity.--New Zealand
Irish--Societies, etc.
Ireland--Emigration and immigration--History.
New Zealand--Emigration and immigration--History.
Ireland--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
New Zealand--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
New Zealand--History--19th century.
New Zealand--History--20th century.