This selection comprises Kathleen Gallagher’s four books of poetry… I have seen you at dawn walking, the sun naked at your feet Kathleen weaves together te ao mauri and her experiences of te ao wairua — giving resonance to the multiple feathers worn by manu kaitiaki Kōtuku. Whether you wade in the foreshore or seek […]
Books
Rohe Kōreporepo – The Swamp the Sacred Place
World Premiere Christchurch 30 Oct 2021 NZ International Film Festival With filmmaker Kathleen Gallagher and writer Dylan Pyle we travel throughout Aotearoa New Zealand from Whangamarino in the north to Ōkarito in the South with fishermen, local iwi, farmers, healers, artists, scientists, trappers, teachers and students – as they replant, reflood and restore our old […]
Earthquakes & Butterflies – Novel
A delightful, beautifully designed novel and photographic journal following Hone, Kara, Pieter, Hemi, Helena, Kay and Tess as they navigate their way through the tragedy of the Christchurch earthquakes. Scroll down to listen to Earthquakes and Butterflies in 5 part reading on Radio NZ or watch a film of the play performed at Christchurch Transitional […]
Inangahua Gold – Novel
A story by by Kathleen GallagherDrawings by Michael Coughlan An historical novel set in c19th West Coast NZ, exploring the birthing of a new way of being when folk from opposite ends of the earth holding vastly differing values, languages and world views, cross the Southern Alps tramping through mountains, forests and wild rivers, and […]
The Storys of Abdy Farm
Yorkshire To New Zealand In September 1863 William Story left Abdy Farm, at Wath-upon-Dearne in Yorkshire with his three sons William, Charles and Arthur, for New Zealand. His wife Sarah Pepper Story stayed in Yorkshire with their three daughters Mary, Alice, Clara and baby Fred. William and the boys sailed on “The Canterbury”. Their second […]
The Gallaghers of Cronadun
This book is for the bone diggers and those who have listening ears. According to Fr Austin, ‘the bone diggers’ are those folk who are interested in the roots — the old connections. In 1981 when Kathleen Gallagher was 24 and living in Wellington she began interviewing Mary Gallagher Crowley, who was 93 years old […]
Peace Plays – Three Plays
by Kathleen Gallagher Peace Plays comprises two radio plays – Charlie Bloom and Shanty and The Angel and one theatre play – Hautu. Kathleen Gallagher received the NZ Playwrights Award in 1993. In 1996 her radio play Charlie Bloom was a finalist in the NZ Radio Awards and in the NZ Media Peace Awards. 1. […]
MotherTongue – Four Plays
Mothertongue – Offspring – Banshee Reel – Jacaranda by Kathleen Gallagher, Kate Winstanley and Gen Rippingale Womens Action Theatre was born in December 1985 in Christchurch. Kate Winstanley and Kathleen Gallagher began writing the script of MotherTongue. Katy Yiakmis, Annmarie Jargose and Alison Dalziel joined us and we began workshopping, rewriting and reworking Mothertongue in the […]