In Part One I presented an overview of our current knowledge of the early years of Ned Kellys life. The important message from Part one was that Red Kellys family was known as a poor but law abiding family, and they were not troubled in any way by police from the time […]
Month: February 2020
The Actual True Story of Ned Kelly : Part one
One good thing that Justin Kurzel’s crazy fantasy movie about the Kelly Gang might have done is make people ask what the genuinely true story really is. And it’s a good question because there are so many versions of the story out there, all claiming to be definitive, so anyone could be forgiven for being […]
‘True Story of the Kelly Gang’ – my review
I finally decided I should see this movie for myself, though as most will know I had already expressed a view, based on what most others in Kelly world circles have said about it, that I might not. Aidan Phelan on A Guide to Australian Bushrangers had excoriated the movie in quite a relentless way, […]