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9781925138481
Author
Morrissey, Doug
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Title
Ned Kelly : a lawless life / Doug Morrissey ; introduction by John Hirst.
Portion of title
Lawless life
Publisher and/or associated date/s
Ballarat, VIC : Connor Court Publishing, [2015].
©2015.
Description
xv, 4 unnumbered pages, 256 pages, : illustrations, colour maps, portraits ; 21 cm.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I: Larrikin thief -- 1. Horse stealing -- 2. Mrs Kelly's selection -- 3. Whitty and Byrne -- 4. Constable Hall's farewell -- 5. Part II : Bushranger and outlaw -- 5. That bloody Fitzpatrick -- 6. Murdering police -- 7. Going public -- 8. Operation massacre -- 9. A bank robbers' republic -- Conclusion a lawless life -- Appendices I The James Murdock connection -- II The diseased stock agent -- III Superintendent Hare's wound at Glenrowan -- IV The makers of the modern Kelly myth -- V The Jerilderie letter annotated.
Summary
The books on Kelly multiply without adding to our understanding. Instead the mythologising becomes more intense and uncritical. Doug Morrissey has something new to say on Kelly and his world. Ned Kelly was very ready with excuses and justifications for his actions. His admiring biographers endorse them. In this book Doug subjects them to close scrutiny. They all fall over and a different Ned emerges - a man who had embraced a lawless life. Doug Morrissey is an expert on life in Kelly country. His previous writings have annoyed the admirers of Australia's most famous bushranger. This book will cause heated debate. It includes a criticism of the best known Kelly books and a line by line annotation of the errors and misrepresentations in Ned's own Jerilderie Letter.
Subjects
Kelly, Ned, -- 1855-1880
Kelly, Ned, -- 1855-1880 -- Correspondence
Bushrangers
Outlaws
Bushrangers -- New South Wales -- Correspondence
Bushrangers -- Victoria -- Correspondence
Bushrangers -- Australia -- Biography
Outlaws -- Australia -- Biography
Jerilderie (N.S.W.) -- History
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons
Hirst, J. B. (John Bradley), 1942-2016
(writer of introduction)
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Jerilderie letter.
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2022.217
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