To Tara Via Holyhead

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To Tara Via Holyhead is written by Lyndon Fraser and published by Auckland University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1869401638 (ISBN 10) and 9781869401634 (ISBN 13).

To Tara via Holyhead provides a fascinating glimpse into the lives and experiences of Irish Catholic immigrants in nineteenth-century Christchurch. Lyndon Fraser has used a wide variety of government, local body, and church records to track individuals and families in detail. He shows how the immigrants adjusted imaginatively and creatively to a new environment by forging durable social networks based on ethnic ties. To Tara via Holyhead is also a significant contribution to the study of immigration to New Zealand as it explores issues of ethnicity, kinship and community that have been widely debated by historians. Fraser is familiar with these discussions and is able to make valuable comparisons with North American experience.