The Good Citizen Amazing Story Of Tom Ryan

by Dwyer, Denis

• ISBN13: 9781869665043
• ISBN10: 186966504X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-11-01
• Publisher: White Cloud Books

Summary

The illegitimate baby of an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, Tom Ryan and his family were banished from Ireland to the far ends of the earth: New Zealand. He went on to score the first points for the first All Blacks rugby team and have a huge influence on the development of tourism services in Taupo. He became a distinguished artist, creating rare sketches of the controversial Maori warrior Te Kooti, and he married the daughter of a Maori chief. He won one of the first inter-colonial yachting contests and became director of a mining company. The Good Citizen paints a vivid and intimate portrait of early colonial New Zealand and the people who made up its society.

Author Biography

Denis Dwyer has worked was a secondary school teacher, in communications roles for New Zealand Crown Research and health institutions, as a newspaper sub-editor and features writer, and most recently as an academic director for an English Teaching College. He is a keen walker and member of the Manawatu Striders, and regularly conducts tours as a volunteer at the New Zealand Rugby Museum in Palmerston North. Married to Dale, with three children and seven grandchildren, Denis Dwyer is retired and spends his time travelling, researching and writing.