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Kōrero: Irish

Patriotic school group, Willowbridge

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Patriotic school group, Willowbridge

Only a few New Zealand Irish supported the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, which sparked a movement for independence from the British. In the same year this group expressed its patriotism in the strongly Irish community of Willowbridge, near Waimate in South Canterbury.

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Jock Phillips, Irish – Culture and politics 1911–1922, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/365/patriotic-school-group-willowbridge (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2024.