Such a Long Long Way ... is a family history exploring the Kennedys, Thomas Kennedy, his wife Catherine Grant and their children, who arrived in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1859. It takes the reader to Tipperary, to meet extended family, Kennedys, Grants and Gleesons. Four of the six Kennedy children wed other Irish immigrants, Ryan sisters, a McDonald and a Flynn. Eliza established her life with an Englishman called Lawler, and Annie married a German gold miner, Henry Nink.