Uncovering the stories my family forgot, about a past still haunting Aotearoa New Zealand
- Written by: Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University
A 19th century image of Parihaka, New Zealand, with Mount Taranaki in the background.Getty ImagesThe day my great-grandfather Andrew Gilhooly was buried at Taranaki’s Ōkato cemetery in early February 1922, Jas Higgins played the Last Post. Neither man had seen active service in the “great war” with which that ritual is most...
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