… a hollow Ned, A bogus hero, fit for hollow men.                             –Geoffrey Sawer Perhaps it was mere cosmic coincidence: precisely as I sat down to write this piece about the Kelly myth (or hoax) on Friday, January 18, Monsignor John White, in St Patrick’s Catholic church in Wangaratta, north-east Victoria, stepped forward to celebrate a requiem mass for the soul of Ned Kelly himself. With proper gravity, the Monsignor warned us that the final decision of this business lay with God, and beyond our competence or comment. Amen to that! The interment, to follow soon, was (so to…