G'day,

Jaze: You might as well have any other beer ... Fosters was an early American firm that took up brewing in Australia ... but they did bother to learn a bit more about what beer was than the scant ideas they brought with them!

GUEST (26 Jan 04 - 03:25 PM): freda underhill has very well covered the unappreciated fact that the Kellys were (at least at the end) sure they were bringing about a revolt for (mostly) Irish emancipation. The bank robbing they did was far more in line with many later "revolutionary movements" in being a 'fund-raiser' for arms, supplies and helping supporters.

The really worrying thing is that, as Carey's quite fictional True History of the Kelly Gang does point out, the aggression did not come from John "Red" Kelly - Ned's dad ... but (more likely) from his mother Ellen (neé Quinn) ... apparently sister of one of my great-great grandmothers - Jane-Anne Quinn! Poor old John kept his head down and hoped the police troopers would leave him alone ... Ellen - and Ned - hit back.

Regard(les)s,

Bob Bolton