The Ulster New Zealand Trust was formed to
restore the Irish birthplace of New Zealand Prime
Minister John Ballance. This site includes
information about John Ballance, and Ballance
House.
More suggestions and sources
Akenson, Donald Harman. Half the world from
home: perspectives on the Irish in New Zealand,
1860–1950. Wellington: Victoria University
Press, 1990.
Fraser, Lyndon, ed. A distant shore: Irish
migration and New Zealand settlement. Dunedin:
University of Otago Press, 2000.
Fraser, Lyndon. To Tara via Holyhead: Irish
Catholic immigrants in nineteenth-century
Christchurch. Auckland: Auckland University
Press, 1997.
Patterson, Brad, ed. The Irish in New
Zealand: historical contexts and perspectives.
Wellington: Stout Research Centre for New Zealand
Studies, 2002.
Rogers, Anna. A lucky landing: the story of
the Irish in New Zealand. Auckland: Random
House, 1996.
Sweetman, Rory. Bishop in the dock: the
sedition trial of James Liston. Auckland:
Auckland University Press, 1997.