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Further sources

Books

Donald Harman Akenson, Half the World from Home: Perspectives on the Irish in New Zealand, 1860–1950, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1990

Rollo Arnold, The Farthest Promised Land: English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1981

Ed. Lyndon Fraser, A Distant Shore: Irish Migration and New Zealand Settlement, University of Otago Press, Dunedin, 2000

Lyndon Fraser, To Tara via Holyhead: Irish Catholic Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century Christchurch, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1997

Charlotte Macdonald, A Woman of Good Character: Single Women as Immigrant Settlers in Nineteenth-century New Zealand, Allen and Unwin, Wellington, 1990

G.L. Pearce, The Scots of New Zealand, Collins, Auckland, 1976

Links

Genealogical links and Immigrant links sections on this site

Related features on this site:

• Long Journey for Sevenpence: Assisted Immigration to New Zealand from the United Kingdom 1947–1975.
• 'The Colony in 1874' — plate from the Students' Bateman Historical Atlas Volume 2 — New Zealand: An Emerging Identity, 1870s–1930s

The voyage of the Birman: site by Peter Sim charting the voyage of the Birman a barque (sailing vessel) that left England in 1841 and arrived in New Zealand in 1842.

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