Stringybark Creek: The Irish Policemen Who Hunted Ned Kelly
This episode follows the Irish threads running through Australia's most famous outlaw story, from John "Red" Kelly's transportation for stealing a pig to the four Irish-born policemen — Kennedy, Scanlan, Lonigan and McIntyre — sent into the bush to hunt down his son Ned. Helen and John unpack the myth-making, the class politics, and the quiet tragedy of Irishmen on both sides of the gun.
Drawing on contemporary newspaper reports, trial records, police history and John's own experience of manhunts and missing-persons searches, this episode is a story of famine, emigration and violence…
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