Does one of these towns own the Kelly story? On the Kelly Facebook Pages they’re arguing about who owns the Kelly story and who has the right to tell it and where it should be told from. Theres a Glenrowan Camp led by Joanne Griffiths, who is an actual Kelly descendant apparently, and the Beechworth […]
Month: December 2016
2016 In Review: Part Two :
On the Facebook Kelly places this year the dominant item of interest has been the Unforgotten Image. Ironoutlaw and Ned Kelly Central both ignored it because of personal animosities, but even Matt Shore admitted at the end of the year that the image added nothing to our knowledge of Ned Kelly or to Kelly history. […]
2016 : The Kelly Year in Review. Part 1
In this Two Part Post, I am going to review what happened in the wider world of Ned Kelly in 2016. The second Part will be about this Blog, but Part one will be about everything else. The contrast is quite amazing, as you will see when you read Part Two in a few days time […]
The Myth of the Lost Cause and the Kelly Legends
General Robert E Lee rallies the men in the Blue and Gray Ive just finished reading a really interesting book called “The Myth of The Lost Cause, and Civil War History”. Its about the American Civil War, and how the side that was defeated promoted a particular view of what happened in the hope that […]