A brief biography of the man that hanged Ned Kelly.

All about the journey of researching “Glenrowan”.
A brief biography of the man that hanged Ned Kelly.
The core of the Glenrowan story is Ned Kelly. Everything that occurs is either directly or indirectly linked to him and his decisions. Naturally this should position him as the protagonist of the story, though protagonist usually implies that character is the “good guy”. As I’ve discovered, simplistic terms like “good”, “bad”, “hero”, or “villain” are just completely inadequate to describe someone as complex as Edward Kelly.
Aidan Phelan discusses the challenge of working out what to keep in snd what to take out when adapting history into a narrative text.