I don’t have a Post ready to go onto the Blog yet, because Ive been busy with other things. I do actually have a life thats separate from reading and writing abut Ned Kelly and I do stop to ‘smell the roses’ from time to time Mark! Now that Ive picked off all the places […]
Month: May 2016
Two Years and 100,000 Visits later….
Its now exactly two years since this Blog started. Given that my two earlier attempts to provide an alternative to Kelly worship on the Internet had been sabotaged, I wasn’t sure how long this one would last, but here we are , two years later still going strong as the other places have mostly crumbled […]
Dan goes to Gaol; Two Kelly Myths sink
Ian Jones called Chapter 7 of his Kelly biography “The Fitzpatrick Mystery” because there were so many conflicting accounts given of what took place when Fitzpatrick was at the Kelly homestead on Monday April 15th1878 it became almost impossible to work out what really happened. In the preceeding Chapter 6, titled “The Whitty larceny”, […]
The Lies about Police Persecuting the Innocent Kellys
My purpose in reviewing the criminal records of the Kellys is to find out how true was their claim to be ‘Police made criminals’ and to have been hounded and persecuted by Police and Authorities generally. Kelly writers invariably point to this statement by CH Nicolson, given to the Royal Commission in 1881 as proof […]
Ned Kellys Last Days
This is the book Ian Jones described as ‘poisonously inaccurate”, the one he planned to publically denounce at the Ned Kelly Weekend back in 2005 because he believed it is “marked by persistent vilification of Ned Kelly — unbalanced to the point of psychosis …” surely the kiss of death. As if that wasn’t enough […]