THE UNSETTLED,
by Richard Shaw
(Massey University Press, $39.99)
“This is an addition to a growing literature by Pākehā ‘journeying back into the map of memory’.
Richard Shaw’s 2021 memoir The Forgotten Coast uncovered the story of his Irish great grandfather, Andrew Gilhooly, who arrived in Aotearoa in 1875. In 1881, Gilhooly, a member of the Armed Constabulary, was among the troops at the invasion of Parihaka, the Māori village in south Taranaki.
Later, Andrew and his wife Kate bought three farms on land confiscated from Māori. As
