A Distant Shore
A Distant Shore tells the 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 glimpse into the lives and experiences of these newcomers as they left post-Famine Ireland and made their way to a destination 'half the world from home'. It uses many sources, including letters from migrants to their families in Ireland, and also looks at the history of Irish organisations in New...
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A Distant Shore tells the 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 glimpse into the lives and experiences of these newcomers as they left post-Famine Ireland and made their way to a destination 'half the world from home'. It uses many sources, including letters from migrants to their families in Ireland, and also looks at the history of Irish organisations in New Zealand, both Catholic and Protestant. Booknews Historians, most from down under, explore aspects of the migration of thousands of Irish people to New Zealand between the end of the Great Famine and the beginning of The Great War. They draw on letters home, histories of organizations, and other sources to discuss such topics as varieties of New Zealand Irishness, the Irish on the Otago Goldfields 1861-71, and hibernianism from 1869 to 1969. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Acknowledgements6Contributors7Introduction91No Petty People: Pakeha History and the Historiography of the Irish Diaspora132Varieties of New Zealand Irishness: A Meditation253The Invisible Irish? Re-Discovering the Irish Protestant Tradition in Colonial New Zealand364Irish Migration to New Zealand to 1915555The Irish on the Otago Goldfields, 1861-71756Irish Migration to the West Coast, 1864-1900867'In Prospect of a Happier Future': Private Letters and Irish Women's Migration to New Zealand, 1840-19251058'Shaming the Shoneens': The Green Ray and the Maoriland Irish Society in Dunedin, 1916-221179'The Importance of Being Irish': Hibernianism in New Zealand, 1869-1969135Notes155Index189
\ BooknewsHistorians, most from down under, explore aspects of the migration of thousands of Irish people to New Zealand between the end of the Great Famine and the beginning of The Great War. They draw on letters home, histories of organizations, and other sources to discuss such topics as varieties of New Zealand Irishness, the Irish on the Otago Goldfields 1861-71, and hibernianism from 1869 to 1969. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
