Month: June 2014

In the Border Mail a week or so back there was an article entitled “Ned and Ettie, a love story” and it featured a smiling photo of the goateed Mr Trent Cupid posing alongside a soft fabric doll with a Kelly style face mask, and in the background dozens of cheap models of Ned Kelly […]

Keith McMenomy, is the author of “Ned Kelly: the Authentic Illustrated History” a large and fascinating book described on the pro-kelly website “Ironoutlaw “ as:  “…. solid gold. It presents the facts without taking sides and has one of the most comprehensive collections of illustrations of any Kelly book. Together with its exhaustive index, bibliography […]

Aftermath of Ambush  So lets back up a bit and look at the second sentence of this potted version of the Kelly Story, the sentence that relates to the events that took place at Stringybark Creek: “Wrongly accused they survived a deadly shoot out with Police in 1878 that saw the Gang outlawed with the […]

A Hold Up with Guns pointed at you is a terrifying experience So lets stay with that first sentence and look at the notion that the Gang was on a crusade to change their world for the better.  To start with, consider the story of  “the Gang”, a group of mates made up of Ned […]

A Crusader – and what interesting headgear ! Lets look at the first sentence of the Blurb, Bradley Webbs clever piece of Kelly Propaganda : Washed deep with the convict stain Ned Kelly’s destiny was cast in a defiant mold, the story of his short life was one that saw Ned, his brother Dan and […]

The following is a promo, or “Blurb” for an i-book publication about Ned Kelly.  I don’t have an i-pad so I haven’t read it. The author is a person who maintains an enormous Kelly website called Ironoutlaw, and its been around for nearly 15 years., so you would think he must know something about Ned […]

In my deleted forum, I had planned to present an overview of the various Internet Sites that currently exist, as a sort of Guide to what was available out there and what to watch out for. So I shall start again. One of the easiest to find using your search engine is of course the […]

The Kelly Gang Unmasked is the title of a book by Ian MacFarlane, published in Australia in 2012. It is a brilliant book because even though it is not a big book, it touches on just about every aspect of the Kelly story and is backed up by tons of research and cross references that […]

There is a Facebook Page devoted to “unmasking” Ian MacFarlanes book. Its run by a fellow who for a long time attacked the book on various forums on the internet before he had even read it. No reasonable person would regard such a position as anything less than absurd – to attack a book you […]

In so many ways the Kelly story is a tragedy from start to finish. Neds father “Red” ( John Kelly) was transported to Australia in 1841 for stealing two pigs, valued at six pounds. The way this fact is usually presented, such as by Peter Fitzsimons in his recent book, and on Pro Kelly websites […]