This graph charts the immigrants from all countries who came to New Zealand from 1840 to 1914. This includes those who migrated from places such as Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, and most significantly Australia.
Many socialist and labour leaders criticised the First World War as an imperialist war and strongly opposed conscription. New Zealand workers, they argued, had no quarrel with German workers.
Who were the Irish immigrants who came to New Zealand between 1840 and 1915? Whereabouts in Ireland did they come from and where did they settle when they got here?
Graph of figures taken from the death certificates of British and Irish immigrants to New Zealand (which include information on the father's occupation).
