Story: Irish

More links and websites

• A home away from 'home'

  This NZ History article examines the question of where all British immigrants, including the Irish, came from and why.

• New Zealand Ireland Association

  This Irish website has information for New Zealand Ireland Association members, who can be from Ireland or New Zealand, with links in either country.

• New Zealand Irish Directory

  The New Zealand Irish Consulate site and directory of Irish societies and other activities in New Zealand.

• New Zealand Society of Genealogists Irish Interest Group

  A New Zealand Irish genealogy website.

• The New Zealand Ireland connection

  Established to highlight the links between the two countries, this site includes a list of New Zealand’s Irish migrants.

• Ulster New Zealand Trust

  The Ulster New Zealand Trust was formed to restore the Irish birthplace of New Zealand Prime Minister John Ballance. This site includes information about John Ballance, and Ballance House.

More suggestions and sources

• Akenson, Donald Harman. Half the world from home: perspectives on the Irish in New Zealand, 1860–1950. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1990.
• Fraser, Lyndon, ed. A distant shore: Irish migration and New Zealand settlement. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2000.
• Fraser, Lyndon. To Tara via Holyhead: Irish Catholic immigrants in nineteenth-century Christchurch. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1997.
• Patterson, Brad, ed. The Irish in New Zealand: historical contexts and perspectives. Wellington: Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, 2002.
• Rogers, Anna. A lucky landing: the story of the Irish in New Zealand. Auckland: Random House, 1996.
• Sweetman, Rory. Bishop in the dock: the sedition trial of James Liston. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1997.
• Toleton, Jane. Convent girls. Auckland: Penguin, 1994.