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Ned Kelly (2013)

de Peter FitzSimons

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Love him or loathe him, Ned Kelly has been at the heart of Australian culture and identity since he and his gang were tracked down in bushland by the Victorian police and came out fighting, dressed in bulletproof iron armour made from farmers' ploughs. Historians still disagree over virtually every aspect of the eldest Kelly boy's brushes with the law. Did he or did he not shoot Constable Fitzpatrick at their family home? Was he a lawless thug or a noble Robin Hood, a remorseless killer or a crusader against oppression and discrimination? Was he even a political revolutionary, channelling the spirit of Eureka? Peter FitzSimons brings the history of Ned Kelly and his gang exuberantly to life, weighing in on all of the myths, legends and controversies generated by this compelling and divisive Irish-Australian rebel.… (mais)
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Peter Fitzsimmons tells a damn good story! As a teacher of history, I could see that he builds this biography on historical documents. And Fitzsimmons openly wears his heart on his sleeve: he does not condone Kelly's actions, but he portrays him as a noble man pushed by circumstances, the police and the governing classes into a life of noble desperation. This is a brilliant read, but it is possible to come to less positive assessments of Ned Kelly than that presented here.
  Iacobus | Jul 19, 2014 |
Another fantastic biography from Peter FitzSimons, and it has changed my opinion of him somewhat. While I think he ended up as a murderer, and an attempted mass-murderer at that with the intent to derail a train at Glenrowan, he was I will concede to a certain extent pushed into it by the actions of the police (and Victorian society) in his youth.

The telling point is the anecdote related late in the book that in Victoria every man is presumed innocent until proven Irish. That such a joke existed at the time is an indication to me of the position of the Irish, or at least poor Irish, in Victorian society at the time. This joke is enough to make me think that coming from the poor underclass Ned and his ilk may have been provoked by his, his family's, and his countrymen's treatment by Victorian society in general, to fight back, and as it says in Proverbs 14:12 "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death."

He was a brave man, and a leader. Peter FitzSimons points out that in different circumstances and given half a chance he probably would have made a great general in the army for instance. In this I agree. ( )
  Davros-10 | Jun 3, 2014 |
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To Ian Jones, the doyen of all Kelly writers, who has studied the life and times of Ned Kelly for seventy of his eighty-two years. He, more than anyone, has kept the Kelly story alive in modern Australia and was unfailingly generous to me in the course of writing this book. I salute his passion. I deeply respect his scholarship.
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Background and acknowledgements: The legend of Ned Kelly is is the most enduring Australian one of all. There has always been something about him, what he did and how he did it that fascinated the people not only of his generation but of all generations since.
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Love him or loathe him, Ned Kelly has been at the heart of Australian culture and identity since he and his gang were tracked down in bushland by the Victorian police and came out fighting, dressed in bulletproof iron armour made from farmers' ploughs. Historians still disagree over virtually every aspect of the eldest Kelly boy's brushes with the law. Did he or did he not shoot Constable Fitzpatrick at their family home? Was he a lawless thug or a noble Robin Hood, a remorseless killer or a crusader against oppression and discrimination? Was he even a political revolutionary, channelling the spirit of Eureka? Peter FitzSimons brings the history of Ned Kelly and his gang exuberantly to life, weighing in on all of the myths, legends and controversies generated by this compelling and divisive Irish-Australian rebel.

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