The Irish in New Zealand: Historical Contexts and Perspectives

Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, 2002.

Over 600,000 New Zealanders can claim Irish ancestry . In 1990, internationally noted scholar of the Irish diaspora, Donald Harman Akenson, singled out the Irish as the least studied of New Zealand's major European settlers. A collection of 12 essays on various aspects of this subject.