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May 19, 2014 · It occurred to me some time ago that I should probably know more – after all Ned Kelly is supposed to be the most talked about, written about, documented discussed and lets not forget the most polarising figure in all Australian history.
Jun 14, 2024 · Ned Kelly, in life, as in death, was a polarising figure. During his reign as an outlaw in the late 1870s, mainstream literature portrayed Ned as a ruthless criminal, while pulp publications incited notoriety, encouraging it to spread through oral supposition and folk songs.
Jun 25, 2014 · During his short life, Kelly was a polarising figure, and remains one today – so much so that his family members have taken the precaution of burying him in an unmarked grave. Many view Kelly not so much as a folk hero but as a convicted murderer responsible for the death of three police officers.
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Jo Ritale, Head of Collections at State Library Victoria (SLV), which counts Ned’s armour and the famous Jerilderie Letter among its collection, believes Kelly’s enduring legacy is in part driven by the fierce debates around his real-life activities. ‘There’s two distinct points of view of Ned Kelly and the activities of the Kelly Gang. One is very...
Chris van Tuinen is the Artistic Director of Perth company Lost & Found, the commissioners of Luke Styles’ and librettist Peter Goldsworthy’s opera, Ned Kelly. ‘When we started Lost & Found, Thomas de Mallet Burgess and I had always planned on commissioning a work. Being an Australian company that produces work in Perth we were certain that this ne...
While Luke Styles was originally drawn to the iconography of the Kelly Gang’s crude armour, fashioned – in a reversal of the Biblical exhortation – from plough blades, he soon discovered deeper themes that were suited to the operatic form. ‘In researching Ned and the gang, his family particularly – his mother and sister – it was clear from the whol...
Musically, Lost & Found’s Ned Kellywill incorporate some of the songs that Ned Kelly himself may have known, as well as the influences of Britten, Purcell and Styles’ teacher, Wolfgang Rihm. ‘There’s two existing folk songs in the piece: ‘The Wild Colonial Boy’, which Peter has rewritten as ‘The Wild Colonial Girl’ because Ellen Kelly is front and ...
Overview. Notorious bushranger and national identity Ned Kelly was hanged at Melbourne Gaol in 1880. It was the final act in one of the most colourful, controversial and sometimes violent chapters in Australia's history.
Dec 5, 2018 · Ned Kelly in life, as in death, was a polarising figure. During his outlawry Ned became an adversary to the establishment but a crusader to the common folk. When he rode the trails of North East Victoria it was the fight for land between squatter and selector that drew the battle lines.
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Oct 21, 2014 · One of the most famous images in the history of Australian art, the painting belongs to a series of 27 pictures evoking the saga of Kelly’s blood-soaked tussle with the authorities that Nolan...
