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Edward Kelly (December 1854 [a] – 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police-murderer.One of the last bushrangers, he is known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with the police.
True History of the Kelly Gang is a 2019 bushranger film directed by Justin Kurzel, written by Shaun Grant, and based upon the 2000 novel of the same name by Peter Carey.A fictionalised account of the life of bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly, the film stars George MacKay, Essie Davis, Nicholas Hoult, Charlie Hunnam and Russell Crowe.
Ned Kelly begins his autobiography with a description of his father, John "Red" Kelly, an Irishman transported to Van Diemen's Land and eventually settling in the colony of Victoria, Australia. After marrying Ned's mother Ellen (née Quinn), the Kellys settle in Avenel, a rural area northeast of Melbourne. Red Kelly is shown to have numerous ...
The song Poor Ned was released by the band Redgum on the album Caught in the Act (1983), celebrating Ned Kelly as an Australian hero (It's the thousand like Ned Kelly / Who'll hoist the flag of stars). The Texas-based alt-country band Reckless Kelly takes its name from Ned Kelly.
Carey described Kelly's voice in the Jerilderie Letter as that of an "avant-garde artist with hardly a comma to his name", and in writing True History of the Kelly Gang, he aimed to recreate it. Of his first reading of the Jerilderie Letter, Carey said:
Ned Kelly is a 1959 Australian television play adapted from the radio play of the same name. It focused on two main events – the robbery at Jerilderie and the siege at the Glenrowan Hotel. [1] It was different from a later TV play about Ned Kelly, Ballad for One Gun. [2]
The Last Outlaw is a 1963 British radio serial by Rex Rienits about Ned Kelly. [1] It is not to be confused with the 1980 Australian mini series about Kelly, which has the same name . The serial was one of a number of dramatisations of Australian historical figures by Rienits.
Ned Kelly's armour on display in the State Library of Victoria. The helmet, breastplate, backplate and shoulder plates show 18 bullet marks. Also on display are Kelly's Snider Enfield rifle and one of his boots. In 1879, Australian bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly devised a plan to create bulletproof armour and wear it during shootouts with the ...