New Zealand's Irish Revolution...?

 A couple of posts appeared on LinkedIn announcing the forthcoming publication by UCD Press of  "New Zealand's Irish Revolution".

I'm hard pressed to think of much NZ involvement in the struggle for/against Irish independence. Off the top of my head :

a. the 5 New Zealand servicemen who fought in Trinity College during the Easter Rising against the Irish Volunteers.

b. the transfer of HMS Laburnum to New Zealand after WW1. Laburnum having shelled Irish Volunteers during the Easter Rising.

After that, nothing comes to mind. I suspect I could find an NZ born member of the Black and Tans or the Auxiliaries but that is not an area of research I'm going to delve into yet. There are a few references to New Zealand on the Irish Military Archives online collections, where many appear to be men and women who moved to New Zealand after the creation of the Irish Free State but this will be worth delving into.

When "Dominion" journalists of the Imperial Press Commission visited Ireland in 1918, the 5 New Zealand members weren't photographed meeting with Sinn Fein (even the one who had worked on the shortlived Fenian newspaper The New Zealand Celt at the time of the "Fenian Riot"), whereas Australian MP and journalist Frank Anstey was photographed with members of Sinn Fein at the Shelbourne Hotel.

IWM (Q 28417) Dominion journalists aboard the Guinness light railway tour, Dublin 1918

IWM (Q 28418) Frank Anstey MP with SF members, Dublin 1918

IWM (Q 28419) Frank Anstey MP with SF members, Dublin 1918

IWM (Q 28426) NZ journalists with NZ soldiers, Dublin 1918

While I will have to get a copy of this book at some point in the future to see what perspectives are given, immediate thoughts are that this may be too niche and of little real value. 

More Norwegians and Germans were killed as a result of the Easter Rising than New Zealanders yet little research comes out re these aspects of the struggle. This new book feels like the content may be a bit of a stretch.