Outlaw Ned Kelly will finally be laid to rest on Friday, 132 years after he was executed

Ned Kelly was a man, you are not son...

whose bed!!

seanomelb- back under the bed son...

Irish Central can never bother actually doing a bit of research on Ned Kelly. It's disappointing. Kelly did not 'adopt' Australia. He was a proud native-born Australian of proud Irish Catholic descent. He was a Tip-Antrim man! His father's family came from Tipperary. His much-loved, strong and influential mother's family, the Quinns, came from Co Antrim. And since the Quinns play a much greater role in Kelly's life than his father, that is not to be ignored. Kelly was a boy when his Tipperary father died. As I have posted here in the past, the full story of social inequity and the replication of the Anglo-Protestant Ascendency of Ireland in Victoria, Australia is engrossing. Even a Google search will be more helpful than reading Irish Central's tabloid rehash. I send my respects to the Kelly family at this the burial of Ned Kelly's remains. I can't begin to imagine what it must be like to be descended from a man who has become a legend, a myth. It's the man and his times which are far more interesting.

What the Saxon wrought and keeps on giving - In recent centuries crime and punishment linked Great Britain to America and Australia in a most curious way: the actual crimes occurred in England, Ireland and Scotland but for punishment thousands upon thousands of the criminals were banished to the American colonies and later to Australia. In the case of Ireland, social protest and political dissent were sometimes construed as criminal activity and the court's harshest sentence – transportation to the colonies - could be handed down for dissent as well as for common theft Though most of the Irish felons were convicted of crimes against persons or property, the offences of a substantial minority of them were of a political nature. Hughes writes that "Australia was the official Siberia for Irish dissidents... Between 1800 and 1805 their influx began in earnest, swollen by political exiles transported for their role in the rebellion of 1798, when Ireland tried unsuccessfully to ally with France in revolt against England."

torytory and butlerreport your arrogance is only superseded by your ignorance.

Christ Almighty, trust Irish Central to turn this non-story (tawdry story, if anything) into Anglo Vs. Irish baiting. Pathetic.

Only in Australia do they celebrate criminals and murderers. A reflection perhaps of their collective past?

I See That a few Of The Irishmen receive rest even in OZ and probably sustaining through THe Hymns Of The SHannonDoaGH.