![]() ![]() Kelly’s great moment of childhood bravery, saving a boy from drowning, is rewarded by the boy’s publican father – a sash with Kelly’s heroics blazoned across it is awarded in front of the school. ![]() As a child Kelly hears tales of Cuchulainn and Irish mythology, of the legends and terrors of the district, but only spends a limited time at school because of poverty and his father’s death. The narrative of Ned Kelly is constructed for a private audience, though made public through the machine of research and public interest. ![]() It explores the need to explain one’s actions, motives, and character in the context of possible histories and their receptions by personal and public audiences. Watch a short video on this text from the Books That Made Us series, available via ABC Education! Essay by John KinsellaĪ key to understanding Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang is to realise that this is a book about speech and text, witness, and the question of the reliable or unreliable narrator. ![]()
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