A Distant Shore: Irish Migration & New Zealand Settlement by Fraser, Lyndon

A Distant Shore: Irish Migration & New Zealand Settlement by Fraser, Lyndon.

Softback, very good condition, minor shelf/edge wear, couple of spots to end paper 196 pages.

Published by Otago University Press, 2000.

ISBN: 1877133973 b/w photos 23 x 15.5 centimetres.

This book tells the story of Irish migration to New Zealand in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In a series of essays written by leading scholars in the field, it offers a glimpse into the lives and experiences of these newcomers as they left post-Famine Ireland and made their way to a destination 'half the world from home'. It uses many sources, including letters from migrants to their families in Ireland, and also looks at the history of Irish organisations in New Zealand, both Catholic and Protestant.

About the Author Lyndon Fraser worked as Concept Developer for the Passports exhibition at Te Papa National Museum and now teaches historical sociology at the University of Canterbury. His first book was To Tara via Holyhead: Irish Catholic Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century Christchurch (1997). Dr Fraser is a specialist in ethnicity and migration.

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