“Give me the child till he is seven, and I will show you the man” If this well known Jesuit aphorism was applied to the life of Ned Kelly, it would appear to explain almost […]
In Discussion
Stepping into the Kelly World
As part of my quest to find the real Ned Kelly in late 2013 I joined a public internet Forum that claimed to be a place where you could discuss Ned Kelly. I didn’t realise that really all they wanted to discuss was a particular view of Ned Kelly and the Kelly story, what I […]
Good Man or Bad Man?
Like most people in Australia, Ned Kelly and the Kelly armour were names and images I was familiar with. But, again, in common with most of us, I could not have told anyone wanting to know something about him much more than that he was some sort of bushranger who wore armour, was captured after killing […]