Irish Migrants in New Zealand, 1840-1937: 'The Desired Haven'

by Angela McCarthy

'I have at last reached the desired haven', exclaimed Belfast-born Bessie Macready in 1878, the year of her arrival at Lyttelton, when writing home to cousins in County Down. Utilizing fascinating personal correspondence exchanged between Ireland and New Zealand, this book explores individual responses to migration during the period of the great European emigrations across the world. It addresses a number of central questions in migration history...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843831430
• ISBN13: 9781843831433
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"