Vincent O’Malley is one of our leading historians, with a number of major works exploring Māori–Pākehā relations (most recently: The Meeting Place: Māori and Pākehā Encounters, 1642-1840), the New Zealand Wars and the Waikato War.

For his next project, however, he’s turning his expert eye slightly further afield – some 18,000+ km afield, in fact – to Ireland, to explore Irish immigration to Aotearoa, and the historical interactions between the Irish and Māori.

It’s a project for which O’Malley has been awarded a prestigious Judith Binney Trust Fellowship and will see him draw on archival research in New Zealand, Britain, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

He meets Eugene Bingham (Pākehā, Ngāpuhi) to discuss his body of work, and give fascinating insights into his work so far on Māori and the Irish: A Unique Affinity?

Supported by the Judith Binney Trust.