Angela McCarthy

Contact Details

Room: First Floor, 99 Albany Street
Tel: 64 3 479 8622
Email: angela.mccarthy@otago.ac.nz
Office Hours: Tuesday 12 - 1 and by appointment
Teaching: HIST 228, HIST 328.

Academic Qualifications

2000: PhD, Trinity College, Dublin
1996: MA (1st class hons), University College Dublin
1993: BA (Hons), University College Dublin

Research Interests

Angela McCarthy's research focuses on Scottish and Irish migration since the nineteenth century. Her current major project, a collaborative venture with Dr Cathy Coleborne of the University of Waikato and a small research team, has received support from the Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand to explore issues of migration, ethnicity, and madness in New Zealand and Australia.

Select Publications

• (editor with Lyndon Fraser), The English Diaspora in New Zealand (Dunedin: Otago University Press, under contract).
• (editor with Catharine Coleborne), Migration, Ethnicity, and Mental Health: International Perspectives, 1840-2010 (London and New York: Routledge, Studies in Cultural History series, 2012).
• Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand since 1840 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011).
• Personal Narratives of Irish and Scottish Migration, 1921-65: ‘For Spirit and Adventure’ (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007).
• (editor), A Global Clan: Scottish Migrant Networks and Identities Since the Eighteenth Century (London and New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 2006; paperback edition 2011).
• Irish Migrants in New Zealand, 1840-1937: ‘The Desired Haven’ (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2005, Irish Historical Monographs Series).
• 'The Scottish Diaspora since 1815', in T. M. Devine and Jenny Wormald (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History, 1500-2010 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 510-532.
• 'Scottish Migrant Ethnic Identities in the British Empire', in John M. MacKenzie and T. M. Devine (eds), Scotland and the British Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 118-146.
• 'Scottishness and Britishness among New Zealand’s Scots since 1840', in Catherine McGlynn, Andrew Mycock, and James W. McAuley (eds), Britishness, Identity and Citizenship: The View From Abroad (Peter Lang: Bern, 2011), pp. 55-72.
• 'The Scots' Society of St Andrew, Hull, 1910-2001: Immigrant, Ethnic, and Transnational Association', in Tanja Bueltmann, Andrew Hinson, and Graeme Morton (eds), Ties of Bluid, Kin and Country: Scottish Associational Culture in the Diaspora (Stewart Publishing, 2009), pp. 243-257.
• 'Language and Accent among Irish migrants in New Zealand', Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, vol. 10, 2010, pp. 37-54 [specially commissioned volume on the Irish in New Zealand].
• 'Migration and Ethnic Identities in the Nineteenth Century', in Giselle Byrnes (ed.), The New Oxford History of New Zealand (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 173-195.
• '"The Only Place Worth Thinking About": Personal Testimony and Irish and Scottish Migrants in Australasia, 1921-1961', Social History, vol. 33, no. 3, August 2008, pp. 317-335.
• 'Ethnicity, Migration, and the Lunatic Asylum in Early Twentieth-Century Auckland, New Zealand', Social History of Medicine, vol. 21, no. 1, April 2008, pp. 47-65.
• '"Bands of fellowship": The Role of Personal Relationships and and Social Networks among Irish migrants in New Zealand, 1861-1911', in Enda Delaney and Donald M. MacRaild (eds), Irish Migration, Networks and Ethnic Identities Since 1750 (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 190-209.
• ‘Scottish National Identities among Inter-war Migrants in North America and Australasia’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol. 34, no. 2, June 2006, pp. 201-222.
• ‘Personal Letters, Oral Testimony, and Scottish Migration to New Zealand in the 1950s: The Case of Lorna Carter’, Immigrants and Minorities, vol. 23, no. 1, March 2005, pp. 59-79.
• ‘Personal Accounts of Leaving Scotland, 1921-1954’, Scottish Historical Review, vol. 83, 2, no. 216, October 2004, pp. 196-215.
• ‘Personal Letters and the Organisation of Irish Migration to and from New Zealand, 1848-1925’, Irish Historical Studies, vol. 33, no. 131, May 2003, pp. 297-319.
• ‘“For Spirit and Adventure”: Personal Accounts of Scottish Migration to New Zealand, 1921-1961’, in Tom Brooking and Jennie Coleman (eds.), The Heather and the Fern: Scottish Migration and New Zealand Settlement (Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2003), pp. 117-132.
• ‘“How Different It Is From Home”: Comparisons Between New Zealand and Ireland as Reflected in Personal Letters’, in Brad Patterson (ed.), The Irish in New Zealand: Historical Contexts and Perspectives (Wellington: Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, 2002), pp. 35-51.
• ‘“A Good Idea of Colonial Life”: Personal Letters and Irish Migration to New Zealand’, New Zealand Journal of History, vol. 35, no. 1, April 2001, pp. 1-21.
• ‘“In Prospect of a Happier Future”: Private Letters and Irish Women’s Migration to New Zealand, 1840-1925’, in Lyndon Fraser (ed.), A Distant Shore: Irish Migration and New Zealand Settlement (Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2000), pp. 105-116.
• ‘“The Desired Haven”? Impressions of New Zealand in Letters to and from Ireland, 1840-1925’, in Andy Bielenberg (ed.), The Irish Diaspora (London: Longman, 2000), pp. 272-284.

Recent Select Conference Papers and Presentations

• Feb 2011: 'Exploring ethnicity in New Zealand asylums', Health and Place symposium, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
• Feb 2011: 'Migration, ethnicity, and madness, 1863-1909', Global Scots symposium, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
• July 2010: 'English migrants in New Zealand asylums', Locating the Hidden Diaspora: The English in the Anglo-Phone World, Northumbria University, Newcastle, England.
• June 2010: 'Scottish and Irish impressions of Maori in nineteenth-century New Zealand', Irish and Scots Encounters with Indigenous Peoples conference, University of Toronto and Guelph University, Toronto, Canada.
• April 2010: 'Migration, ethnicity, and madness in Dunedin's public asylums, 1863-1909', International Perspectives on Migration, Ethnicity, and Health symposium, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
• Feb 2010: 'Scottish ethnic identities in the British Empire', Scotland and the British Empire symposium, Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Oct 2009: ‘Irish and Scottish migration, ethnicity and madness in New Zealand, 1864-1909: Comparative, transnational, and multidisciplinary approaches’, Global Nations? Irish and Scottish Expansion since the 16th Century, Sixth Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative conference, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
• Oct 2009: ‘Migration, ethnicity, and madness in New Zealand, 1863-1909’, Scotland’s Global Impact Conference, UHI Millennium Institute, Inverness, Scotland.
• July 2009: ‘German migrants in New Zealand asylums’, New Zealand Studies Association conference, Frankfurt, Germany.
• June 2008: 'Scottishness and Britishness among New Zealand's Scots since 1840', Britishness, Identity and Citizenship: The View From Abroad Conference, Centre for Constructions and Identity, University of Huddersfield, England.
• November 2007: ‘The influence of empire migration on Britain and Ireland: The example of New Zealand’. The Future of the Past: Sovereignty and Dominion, People in Places, New Zealand Historical Association conference, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
• July 2006: ‘Representations of Scottish ethnic identities in New Zealand’. Scots Abroad: The New Zealand Scots in International Perspective conference, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
• November 2005: ‘Migrants, ethnicity, and the lunatic asylum in early twentieth-century Auckland’. Conversations Across Time and Space:  New Zealand Historical Association biennial conference, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Areas of Research Supervision

Irish and Scottish history and migration, immigration and ethnicity in New Zealand.

Links

Staff page at the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies

New Zealand Irish Connection

Migration, Ethnicity, and Insanity project

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