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Stringybark Creek: The Irish Policemen Who Hunted Ned Kelly

Stringybark Creek: The Irish Policemen Who Hunted Ned Kelly

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Four Irish constables, an outlaw with an Irish father, and a bush ambush 17,000km from home

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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 following Irish following Irish policemen to the far
side of the world.

Presenters - Dr John Reynolds, Helen Moorhouse

Producer - Daryl Moorhouse

Sound Record and Mix - Sean Byrne

Recorded at Tinpot Productions Studios

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Póilíní, commonly misspelled as 'polini' or 'paolini' or even
'poleini', is the Irish word for 'police'. The Póilíní Podcast
covers stories from over 200 years of Irish policing history,
from the Royal Irish Constabulary, to the Dublin Metropolitan
Police, to An Garda Síochána.

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