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A distant shore : Irish migration & New Zealand settlement / edited by Lyndon Fraser.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Dunedin, N.Z. : University of Otago Press, 2000Description: 196 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1877133973
  • 9781877133978
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 993.0049162 21
LOC classification:
  • DU424.5.I74 D57 2000
Contents:
No petty people : pākehā history and the historiography of the Irish diaspora / Donald Harman Akenson -- Varieties of New Zealand Irishness : a meditation / Patrick O'Farrell -- The invisible Irish? : re-discovering the Irish Protestant tradition in colonial New Zealand / Alasdair Galbraith -- Irish migration to New Zealand to 1915; The Irish on the Otago goldfields, 1861-71 / Terry Hearn -- Irish migration to the West Coast, 1864-1900 / Lyndon Fraser -- "In prospect of a happier future" : private letters and Irish women's migration to New Zealand, 1840-1925 / Angela McCarthy -- "Shaming the shoneens" : The Green Ray and the Maoriland Irish Society in Dunedin, 1916-22 / Seán Brosnahan -- "The importance of being Irish" : Hibernianism in New Zealand, 1869-1969 / Rory Sweetman.
Summary: Covering 19th and early 20th century migrants, it includes statistical analyses of where people came from in Ireland, why they came, where they went, and in what numbers. It shows strong connections with the story of the Irish on Australian goldfields - many of whom came on to New Zealand.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-188) and index.

No petty people : pākehā history and the historiography of the Irish diaspora / Donald Harman Akenson -- Varieties of New Zealand Irishness : a meditation / Patrick O'Farrell -- The invisible Irish? : re-discovering the Irish Protestant tradition in colonial New Zealand / Alasdair Galbraith -- Irish migration to New Zealand to 1915; The Irish on the Otago goldfields, 1861-71 / Terry Hearn -- Irish migration to the West Coast, 1864-1900 / Lyndon Fraser -- "In prospect of a happier future" : private letters and Irish women's migration to New Zealand, 1840-1925 / Angela McCarthy -- "Shaming the shoneens" : The Green Ray and the Maoriland Irish Society in Dunedin, 1916-22 / Seán Brosnahan -- "The importance of being Irish" : Hibernianism in New Zealand, 1869-1969 / Rory Sweetman.

Covering 19th and early 20th century migrants, it includes statistical analyses of where people came from in Ireland, why they came, where they went, and in what numbers. It shows strong connections with the story of the Irish on Australian goldfields - many of whom came on to New Zealand.

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