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Ned Kelly’s Father

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In the past there has been a somewhat simplistic debate about the Irishness of the Kelly phenomenon, or the ‘Kelly Outbreak’ as it was called at the time. Was the outbreak primarily the expression of Irishness, defined as the inheritance and perpetuation of Irish criminality and barbarism in an Australian setting, or of Irishness as the inheritance of Irish Catholic nationalist heroism?

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    Reece, B. (1991). Ned Kelly’s Father. In: Reece, B. (eds) Exiles from Erin. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21557-7_10

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