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Bibliography

The list below is a select list of works on the Irish in New Zealand and is divided according to books, articles, chapters, and theses. Please email me with any corrections or additions.

Books

Akenson, Donald Harman, Half The World From Home: Perspectives on the Irish in New Zealand, 1860-1950 (Wellington, 1990).

Akenson, Donald Harman, The Irish Diaspora: A Primer (Belfast, 1993).

Akenson, Donald Harman, Small Differences: Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, 1815-1922 (Kingston, 1988).

Davis, Richard P, Irish Issues in New Zealand Politics, 1868-1922 (Dunedin, 1974).

Fraser, Lyndon, Castles of Gold: A History of New Zealand’s West Coast Irish (Dunedin, 2007).

Fraser, Lyndon (ed.), A Distant Shore: Irish Migration and New Zealand Settlement (Dunedin, 2000).

Fraser, Lyndon, To Tara via Holyhead: Irish Catholic Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century Christchurch (Auckland, 1997).

Garrett, Helen, Te Manihera: The Life and Times of the Pioneer Missionary Robert Maunsell (Auckland, 1991).

Golden, Rev. John, Some Old Waikato Days (Dunedin, 1922).

Macdonald, Charlotte, A Woman of Good Character: Single Women as Immigrant Settlers in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand (Wellington, 1990).

McCarthy, Angela, Irish Migrants in New Zealand, 1840-1937: ‘The Desired Haven’ (Woodbridge, 2005, Irish Historical Monographs Series).

McCarthy, Angela, Personal Narratives of Irish and Scottish Migration, 1921-65: ‘For Spirit and Adventure’ (Manchester, 2007).

McGill, David, The Lion and the Wolfhound (1990).

O'Farrell, P, Vanished Kingdoms: Irish in Australia and New Zealand, a Personal Excursion (Sydney, 1990).

Patterson, Brad (ed.), From Ulster to New Ulster: The 2003 Ulster New Zealand Lectures (Coleraine and Wellington, 2004).

Patterson, Brad (ed.), The Irish in New Zealand: Historical Contexts and Perspectives (Wellington, 2002).

Patterson, Brad (ed.), Ulster-New Zealand Migration and Cultural Transfers (Dublin, 2005).

Rogers, Anna, A Lucky Landing: The Story of the Irish in New Zealand (Auckland, 1996).

Simmons, E R, In Cruce Salus: A History of the Diocese of Auckland 1848-1980 (Auckland, 1982).

Stone, R C J, James Dilworth (Auckland, 1995).

Sweetman, Rory, Bishop in the Dock: The Sedition Trial of James Liston (Auckland, 1997).

Articles

Akenson, D H, 'Immigration and Ethnicity in New Zealand and the USA - the Irish Example', in The Fullbright Seminars: New Worlds? The Comparative Story of New Zealand and the United States (Wellington), pp. 28-57.

Akenson, Donald, 'The Irish in New Zealand', in Familia - Ulster Genealogical Review, vol. 2, no. 5 (1989).

Akenson, Donald Harman, 'No Petty People: Pakeha History and the Historiography of the Irish Diaspora', in Fraser (ed.), A Distant Shore (Dunedin, 2000), pp. 13-24.

Akenson, D H, 'Reading the Texts of Rural Immigrants: Letters from the Irish in Australia, New Zealand and North America', Canadian Papers in Rural History, Vol VII, (1990), pp. 387-406.

Akenson, Donald Harman, ‘What Did New Zealand Do To Scotland and Ireland?’, in Patterson (ed.), The Irish in New Zealand (Wellington, 2002), pp. 185-200.

Bassett, John, 'Family Migration to New Zealand: A Case Study of the Bassett Family of Ballygawley, Downpatrick, Co.Down', in Familia, vol. 2, no. 5 (1989).

Bellam, Michael, 'The Irish in New Zealand', in Familia, vol. 2, no. 1 (1985).

Bohan, Edmund, ‘“A Recollection of the Unfortunate Failings of My Own Countrymen”: The Irish in New Zealand Politics, 1860-1880’, in Patterson (ed.), The Irish in New Zealand (Wellington, 2002), pp. 53-66.

Brosnahan, Seán, 'The "Battle of the Borough" and the "Saige O Timaru": Sectarian Riot in Colonial Canterbury', New Zealand Journal of History, vol. 28, no. 1 (1994), pp. 41-59.

Brosnahan, Seán, 'The Greening of Otago: Irish [Catholic] Immigration to Otago and Southland, 1840-1888', in Norma J. Bethune (ed.), Work 'n' Pastimes: 150 Years of Pain and Pleasure, Labour and Leisure (Dunedin, 1998), pp. 33-64.

Brosnahan, Seán, ‘Parties or Politics? Wellington’s IRA, 1922-1928’, in Patterson (ed.), The Irish in New Zealand (Wellington, 2002), pp. 67-88.

Brosnahan, Seán, ‘“Shaming the Shoneens”: The Green Ray and the Maoriland Irish Society in Dunedin, 1916-22', in Fraser (ed.), A Distant Shore (Dunedin, 2000), pp. 117-134.

Fitzpatrick, David, 'Emigration 1800-1870', in W E Vaughan (ed.), A New History of Ireland Vol. 5. Ireland Under the Union 1801-70 (Oxford, 1989).

Fitzpatrick, David, 'Irish Emigration in the Later Nineteenth Century', Irish Historical Studies vol. 22, no. 86 (September 1980).

Fraser, Lyndon, 'Irish Migration to the West Coast, 1864-1900', New Zealand Journal of History, vol. 34, no. 2, (2000), pp. 197-225.

Fraser, Lyndon, 'Irish Migration to the West Coast, 1864-1900', in Fraser (ed.), A Distant Shore (Dunedin, 2000), pp. 86-104.

Fraser, Lyndon, 'The Network Structure of Catholic Irish Migration to Nineteenth Century Canterbury, New Zealand', in Richard Davis et al (eds.), Irish-Australian Studies: Papers Delivered at the Eighth Irish-Australian Conference, Hobart, July 1995 (Sydney, 1996).

Fraser, Lyndon, ‘“No One But Black Strangers to Spake To God Help Me”: Irish Women’s Migration to the West Coast, 1864-1915’, in Lyndon Fraser and Katie Pickles (eds), Shifting Centres: Women and Migration in New Zealand History (Dunedin, 2002).

Fraser, Lyndon, '"The Ties that Bind": Irish Catholic Testamentary Evidence from Christchurch, 1876-1915', New Zealand Journal of History, vol. 29, no. 1 (1995).

Fraser, Lyndon, ‘To Tara Via Holyhead: The Emergence of Irish Catholic Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Christchurch, New Zealand’, Journal of Social History, vol. 36, no. 2 (2002).

Fraser, Lyndon, 'To Tara Via Holyhead: Irish Catholic Experience in Nineteenth Century Christchurch', in Rebecca Pelan (ed.) Irish-Australian Studies: Papers Delivered at the Seventh Irish-Australian Conference July 1993 (Sydney, 1994).

Galbraith, Alasdair, ‘A Forgotten Plantation: The Irish in Pukekohe, 1865-1900’, in Patterson (ed.), The Irish in New Zealand (Wellington, 2002), pp. 117-130.

Galbraith, Alasdair, 'The Invisible Irish? Re-Discovering the Irish Protestant Tradition in Colonial New Zealand', in Fraser (ed.), A Distant Shore (Dunedin, 2000), pp. 36-54.

Hearn, Terry, 'Irish Migration to New Zealand to 1915', in Fraser (ed.), A Distant Shore (Dunedin, 2000), pp. 55-74.

Hearn, Terry, 'The Irish on the Otago Goldfields, 1861-71', in Fraser (ed.), A Distant Shore (Dunedin, 2000), pp. 75-85.

Hearn, Terry, ‘The Origins of New Zealand’s Irish Settlers, 1840-1945’, in Patterson (ed.), The Irish in New Zealand (Wellington, 2002), pp. 15-34.

Houston, C. J. & W. J. Smyth, 'The Irish Diaspora: Emigration to the New World 1720-1920', in B. J. Graham & L. J. Proudfoot (eds.) An Historical Geography of Ireland (London, 1993).

Laracy, Hugh, 'Les Pères Maristes and New Zealand: The Irish Connection', in Davis (ed.) Irish-Australian Studies (Sydney, 1996).

Laracy, Hugh, ‘Patrick Hennebery in Australasia, 1877-1882’, in Patterson (ed.), The Irish in New Zealand (Wellington, 2002), pp. 103-116.

McCarthy, Angela, ‘“Bands of Fellowship”: The Role of Personal Relationships and Social Networks Among Irish Migrants in New Zealand, 1861-1911’, Immigrants and Minorities, vol. 23, nos. 2/3, July-November 2005, pp. 339-358.

McCarthy, Angela, '"The Desired Haven"? Impressions of New Zealand in Letters to and from Ireland, 1840-1925', in Andy Bielenberg (ed.), The Irish Diaspora (London, 2000), pp. 272-284.

McCarthy, Angela, ‘“A Good Idea of Colonial Life”: Personal Letters and Irish Migration to New Zealand’, New Zealand Journal of History, vol. 35, no. 1 (April 2001), pp. 1-21.

McCarthy, Angela, ‘“How Different It Is From Home”: Comparisons Between New Zealand and Ireland as Reflected in Personal Letters’, in Patterson (ed.), The Irish in New Zealand (Wellington, 2002), pp. 35-52.

McCarthy, Angela, '"In Prospect of a Happier Future": Private Letters and Irish Women's Migration to New Zealand, 1840-1925', in Fraser (ed.), A Distant Shore (Dunedin, 2000), pp. 105-116.

McCarthy, Angela, ‘Migrant Voyages to New Worlds in the Twentieth Century’, International Journal of Maritime History, vol. 18, no. 1 (June 2006), pp. 79-101.

McCarthy, Angela, ‘The Organisation of Irish Migration to and from New Zealand as Portrayed in Personal Letters, 1840-1925’, in Christian Leitz and Joseph Zizek (eds.), Writing Europe’s Pasts: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History (Unley, S.A., 2003).

McCarthy, Angela, ‘Personal Letters and the Organisation of Irish Migration to and from New Zealand, 1848-1925’, Irish Historical Studies, vol. 33, no. 131 (May 2003), pp. 297-319.

McCarthy, Angela, ‘Ulster Protestant Letter Writers in New Zealand’, in Brad Patterson (ed.), Ulster-New Zealand Migration and Cultural Transfers (Dublin, 2005), pp. 71-84.

McCarthy, Angela, ‘“An Unfortunate Country”: Images of Ireland as Contained in Irish-New Zealand Correspondence, 1840-1937’, in Raymond Gillespie (ed.), The Remaking of Modern Ireland, 1750-1950: Beckett Prize Essays in Irish History (Dublin, 2003).

Molloy, Kevin, ‘Victorians, Historians and Irish History: A Reading of the New Zealand Tablet, 1873-1903’, in Patterson (ed.), The Irish in New Zealand (Wellington, 2002), pp. 153-170.

O'Farrell, Patrick, 'Emigrant Attitudes and Behaviour as a Source for Irish History', in G A Hayes-McCoy (ed.), Historical Studies X (Dublin, 1976).

O'Farrell, Patrick J, 'The Irish in Australia and New Zealand', in W E Vaughan (ed.), A New History of Ireland Vol 5 Ireland Under the Union 1801-70 (Oxford, 1989).

O’Farrell, Patrick, ‘On Being New Zealand Irish’, in Patterson (ed.) The Irish in New Zealand (Wellington, 2002), pp. 1-14.

O'Farrell, Patrick, 'Varieties of New Zealand Irishness: A Meditation', in Fraser (ed.), A Distant Shore (Dunedin, 2000), pp. 25-35.

O’Shea-Miles, Cathy, ‘Irishtown Hamilton East, 1864-1940’, in Patterson (ed.), The Irish in New Zealand (Wellington, 2002), pp. 131-152.

O’Sullivan, Vincent, ‘“My People Came Out …”: John Mulgan in Northern Ireland, 1940-1942’, in Patterson (ed.), The Irish in New Zealand (Wellington, 2002), pp. 171-184.

Parkhill, T, '"Prospects of this New Colony": Letters of Ulster Emigrants to New Zealand 1840-1900', in British Review of New Zealand Studies No.4 (1991).

Sweetman, Rory, '"Bishop in the Dock": The Sedition Trial of James Liston, in Rebecca Pelan (ed), Irish-Australian Studies (Sydney, 1994).

Sweetman, Rory, ‘“How to Behave Among Protestants”: Varieties of Irish Catholic Leadership in Colonial New Zealand’, in Patterson (ed.), The Irish in New Zealand (Wellington, 2002), pp. 89-102.

Sweetman, Rory, 'The Importance of Being Irish': Hibernianism in New Zealand, 1869-1969', in Fraser (ed.), A Distant Shore (Dunedin, 2000), pp. 135-154.

Sweetman, Rory, 'The Irish in Nineteenth Century New Zealand', in Antonia J. Jones (ed.), Under The Southern Cross (Hamilton, 1983).

Theses

Cadogan, Bernard Francis, 'Lace Curtain Catholics: The Catholic Bourgeoisie of the Diocese of Dunedin', BA Hons., University of Otago, 1984.

Coleman, Patrick J, 'Transplanted Irish Insitutions: Orangeism and Hibernianism in New Zealand, 1877-1910', MA, University of Canterbury, 1993.

Davis, Richard P., 'The Irish-Catholic Question and New Zealand Society, 1868-1922', PhD, University of Otago, 1968.

Fortune, Gabrielle A., 'Hugh Coolahan and the Prosperous Irish: Auckland, 1840-1870', MA, University of Auckland, 1997.

Fraser, Lyndon A, 'Community, Continuity and Change: Irish Catholic Immigrants In Nineteenth-Century Christchurch', PhD, University of Canterbury, 1993.

Galbraith, Alasdair, 'New Zealand's "Invisible Irish": Irish Protestants in the North Island of New Zealand, 1840-1900', MA, University of Auckland, 1998.

Lynch, Alitia, '"Drunken, Dissipated and Immoral": Perceptions of Irish Immigrants to New Zealand, 1868-1918', MA, University of Auckland, 1997.

McCarthy, Angela, '"Seas May Divide": Irish Migration to New Zealand as Portrayed in Personal Correspondence, 1840-1937', 2 vols., PhD, Trinity College, Dublin, 2000.

McKimmey, Siobhan, '"A Thorough Irish Female": Aspects of the Lives of Single Irish Born Women in Auckland, 1850-1880', MA, University of Auckland, 1997.

McNamara, Heather, ‘Sole Organ of the Irish Race in New Zealand? A Social and Cultural History of the New Zealand Tablet and its Readers, 1898-1923', MA, University of Auckland, 2002.

MacPherson, S C, '"A Ready Made Nucleus of Degradation and Disorder"? A Religious and Social History of the Catholic Church and Community in Auckland 1870-1910', MA, University of Auckland, 1987.

Mehaffy, Helen, ‘A Matter of the Heart: Some Perspectives on the Cultural Identities of Female Irish Migrants in New Zealand from Vogellite Immigration to the Irish Free State’, MA, University of Auckland, 2002.

Morris, John, 'The Assisted Immigrants to New Zealand 1871-9', MA, University of Auckland, 1973.

O'Leary, Gael Eileen, 'The Churches of E Mahoney & Son 1858-1919', MA, University of Auckland 1982.

Sweetman, R M, 'New Zealand Catholicism, War, Politics, and the Irish Issue, 1912-1922', PhD, University of Cambridge, 1991.

Vaney, Neil Patrick, 'The Dual Tradition: Irish Catholics and French Priests in New Zealand, the West Coast Experience, 1865-1901', MA, University of Canterbury, 1976.

Unpublished Research Essays

King, Margaret, 'St Patrick's Day In Auckland 1868-1899' (MA, University of Auckland, 1994).

Moyes, T. A, 'The Sash Their Fathers Wore: A History of Orangeism in the North Island of New Zealand 1868-1900' (MA, University of Auckland, 1994).

Partington, Rachael, 'Faith and Nationality: Catholic Lay Societies and Irish Immigrant Adaptation to Auckland Society 1870-1910' (MA, University of Auckland, 1993).

Rogers, Jasmine Rebecca, 'A Little Corner of Ulster in New Zealand. The Katikati Special Settlement, 1875-1900' (MA, University of Auckland, 1998).

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