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St Patrick's Day, Wellington

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St Patrick's Day, Wellington

These snapshots are from the St Patrick's Day sports festival at Newtown Park, Wellington, in 1912. Among the people featured are the prominent Irish Catholic dignitaries Archbishop Francis Redwood, Sir Joseph Ward and Sir James Carroll, the Māori minister of native affairs. Carroll's father was an Irishman born in Sydney.

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Jock Phillips, Irish – Culture and politics before 1911, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/60/st-patricks-day-wellington (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2024.