books.google.com.au - '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. There was a huge amount of worldwide European migration between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, a phenomenon which...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Irish_Migrants_in_New_Zealand_1840_1937.html?id=fMOqJleo5i4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareIrish Migrants in New Zealand 1840-1937