The Mock Funeral - A Novel of the Irish Riots on the Goldfields of New Zealand

Silver Owl Press, 2008

In March 1868 a Catholic priest leads hundreds of Irish goldminers through Hokitika to celebrate as martyrs three Fenians hanged in Manchester. The priest is charged with sedition and conflict ensues between Irish and British loyalists so the Governor of New Zealand sends in the troops. This novel recreates these conflicts surrounding the country's only 19th century sedition trial at a time when Hokitika was the gold-rush capital of the world and a magnet for the best and worst of humanity...