Ned kelly

[rkunsaw]

I watched NED KELLY on tv yesterday. The 1970 version. Mick Jagger starred as Ned. The best part was the music sung mostly by WAYLON JENNINGS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly_(1970_film)

 

[Warrigal]

I haven't seen a movie yet that has done justice to Edward Kelly, the man.
Several books have done a good job though.

This one isn't bad https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17674584-ned-kelly
This one is very good https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/jan/06/fiction.bookerprize2001

 

[rkunsaw]

I don't know much about Ned Kelly but I enjoyed the movie. I'll look for those books Warrigal.

 

[Warrigal]

Ned was a highly intelligent and complex man. He was an outlaw and a horse thief but his entire family was the subject of persecution from the police for being Irish and as convict stock. As outlaws go, he was a man of principle, never doing anything to hurt members of the public but he had an almost pathological hatred for the police. The only murders he committed (or plotted) were against them and at Stringy Bark Creek he and his men were ambushed and they were fighting for their lives.

At the siege of Glenrowan, where he was finally captured, he exhibited courage worthy of a decorated soldier.

He wrote a long letter (Jerilderie letter) in which he outlined his complaints against the police and his desire for reform and justice. It is an amazing document for that time.

http://www.nma.gov.au/collections/collection_interactives/jerilderie_letter