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Ned Kelly : a lawless life / Doug Morrissey ; introduction by John Hirst.

Ned Kelly : a lawless life / Doug Morrissey ; introduction by John Hirst.
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ISBN 9781925138481
Author Morrissey, Doug (author)
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)
Related title Jerilderie letter.
Call number 2022.217
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