The list below relates to aspects of the Irish in New Zealand and is divided into books, articles, and theses. Please e-mail me with any suggestions, corrections or additions you have.
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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 (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).
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).
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)
Tierney, Mark, Croke of Cashel: The Life of Archbishop Thomas William
Croke 1832-1902 (Dublin, 1976).
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, Stout Research
Centre).
Akenson, Donald, 'The Irish in New Zealand', in Familia - Ulster
Genealogical Review, vol. 2, no.5 (Belfast, 1989).
Akenson, Donald Harman, 'No Petty People: Pakeha History and the Historiography
of the Irish Diaspora', in Fraser (ed.), A Distant Shore (Dunedin,
2000).
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).
Akenson, Donald Harman, ‘What Did New Zealand Do To Scotland and
Ireland?’, in Patterson (ed.), The Irish in New Zealand (Wellington,
2002).
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).
Brosnahan, Séan, 'The "Battle of the Borough" and the
"Saige O Timaru": Sectarian Riot in Colonial Canterbury', New
Zealand Journal of History, vol. 28, no. 1.
Brosnahan, Séan, '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).
Brosnahan, Séan, ‘Parties or Politics? Wellington’s IRA, 1922-1928’, in
Patterson (ed.), The Irish in New Zealand (Wellington, 2002).
Brosnahan, Séan, 'Shaming the Shoneens': The Green Ray and the
Maoriland Irish Society in Dunedin, 1916-22', in Fraser (ed.), A Distant
Shore (Dunedin, 2000).
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).
Fraser, Lyndon, 'Irish Migration to the West Coast, 1864-1900', in Fraser
(ed.), A Distant Shore (Dunedin, 2000).
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).
Galbraith, Alasdair, 'The Invisible Irish? Re-Discovering the Irish
Protestant Tradition in Colonial New Zealand', in Fraser (ed.), A Distant
Shore (Dunedin, 2000).
Hearn, Terry, 'Irish Migration to New Zealand to 1915', in Fraser (ed.), A
Distant Shore (Dunedin, 2000).
Hearn, Terry, 'The Irish on the Otago Goldfields, 1861-71', in Fraser
(ed.), A Distant Shore (Dunedin, 2000).
Hearn, Terry, ‘The Origins of New Zealand’s Irish Settlers, 1840-1945’,
in Patterson (ed.), The Irish in New Zealand (Wellington, 2002).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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, ‘“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).
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).
O'Farrell, Patrick, 'Varieties of New Zealand Irishness: A Meditation',
in Fraser (ed.), A Distant Shore (Dunedin, 2000).
O’Shea-Miles, Cathy, ‘Irishtown Hamilton East, 1864-1940’, in Patterson
(ed.), The Irish in New Zealand (Wellington, 2002).
O’Sullivan, Vincent, ‘“My People Came Out …”: John Mulgan in Northern
Ireland, 1940-1942’, in Patterson (ed.), The Irish in New Zealand
(Wellington, 2002).
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).
Sweetman, Rory, 'The Importance of Being Irish': Hibernianism in New
Zealand, 1869-1969', in Fraser (ed.), A Distant Shore (Dunedin, 2000).
Sweetman, Rory, 'The Irish in Nineteenth Century New Zealand', in Antonia
J. Jones (ed.), Under The Southern Cross (Hamilton, 1983).
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.
MacFarlan, E D, 'Military Pensioners In Auckland: A Reappraisal of the
Royal New Zealand Fencibles', MA, University of Auckland, 1981.
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.
Pybus, A R, 'The Royal New Zealand Fencibles: An Experiment in
Systematic Military Colonisation', MA, University of Auckland, 1950.
Sweetman, R M, 'New Zealand Catholicism, War, Politics, and the Irish
Issue, 1912-1922', PhD, University of Cambridge, 1991.
Tindall, Angela, 'From County Cork to the Southern Corinth: Aspects of
Corkonian Immigration to Auckland in the mid to late Nineteenth Century', MA,
University College Dublin, 1996.
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.
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).
Please contact me if you have any suggestions, additions, or corrections.
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