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Academic career

After a

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titled '' ' 'Seas may divide' : Irish migration to New Zealand as portrayed in personal correspondence, 1840-1937' '' at

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, she moved to the

, rising to full professor. In 2008 McCarthy received $612,000 in Marsden grant funding.

Books

McCarthy is the author of books including: * McCarthy, Angela. ''Irish Migrants in New Zealand, 1840-1937: the Desired Haven''. Vol. 3. Boydell Press, 2005. * McCarthy, Angela. ''Personal narratives of Irish and Scottish migration, 1921-65: For spirit and adventure''. Oxford University Press, 2017. * McCarthy, Angela. ''Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand since 1840''. Manchester University Press, 2011. Her edited volumes include: * McCarthy, Angela, ed. ''A global clan: Scottish migrant networks and identities since the eighteenth century''. Vol. 36. IB Tauris, 2006. * McCarthy, Angela, and MacKenzie, John, eds. ''Global Migrations: The Scottish Diaspora since 1600''. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. * Leckie, Jacqueline, McCarthy, Angela, and Wanhalla, Angela, eds. ''Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific''. Routledge, 2016.

References

Living people New Zealand women historians Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Academic staff of the University of Otago 21st-century New Zealand historians Year of birth missing (living people) New Zealand women writers {{NewZealand-academic-bio-stub