John Kelly (Kelly of Killanne) (1773 – c. 25 June 1798) lived in the town of Killanne in the parish of Rathnure, west of Enniscorthy, in County Wexford in Ireland, and was a United Irish leader who fought in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Kelly was obviously well known to rebels and loyalists alike during the short duration of the Wexford Rebellion but almost nothing is known of him outside this time. He was one of the leaders of the rebel victory at the Battle of Three Rocks which led to the capture of Wexford town but was later seriously wounded while leading a rebel column at the Battle of New Ross.

Robert Gogan describes how Kelly was under orders from the Wexford commander Bagenal Harvey to attack the military outposts around New Ross but on no account to attack the town itself. The rebels outnumbered the government forces and so Harvey sent a messenger to give them an opportunity to surrender. The messenger was shot while carrying a white flag. This angered the rebels who began the attack without receiving the official order from Harvey. Kelly's column of 800 men attacked and broke through Ross's "Three Bullet Gate" and proceeded into the town itself. After initial success, they were eventually beaten back by the government forces and Kelly was wounded in the leg. He was moved to Wexford to recuperate but after the fall of Wexford on 21 June was dragged from his bed, tried and sentenced to death. He was hanged on 25 June 1798 along with seven other rebel leaders on Wexford bridge, after which his body was decapitated, the trunk thrown into the River Slaney and the head kicked through the streets before being set on display on a spike.

In popular culture
His exploits are commemorated in the famous Irish ballad Kelly the Boy From Killane written by Patrick Joseph McCall (1861–1919). Liam Gaul describes how McCall wrote the song to commemorate the centenary of the 1798 Rebellion, although it was not published in book form until it appeared in McCall's Irish Fireside Songs in 1911. Gaul says the origin of the melody used in the song is uncertain. There is no known reference to it before it was used in Kelly the Boy From Killane and so it is likely that McCall, who was a talented musician, wrote the tune himself. Don Partridge recorded a solo acoustic version of the song in 1964, and would later regularly play the song during street busking, before and after his hit records in the late 1960s.

Lyrics

What's the news, what's the news oh my bold Shelmalier
With your long-barrelled guns from the sea
Say what wind from the south brings a messenger here
With the hymn of the dawn for the free
Goodly news, goodly news do I bring youth of Forth
Goodly news shall you hear Bargy man
For the boys march at dawn from the south to the north
Led by Kelly the boy from Killane

Tell me who is that giant with the gold curling hair
He who rides at the head of your band
Seven feet is his height with some inches to spare
And he looks like a king in command
Ah my boys that's the pride of the bold Shelmaliers
'Mongst greatest of heroes a man
Fling your beavers aloft and give three ringing cheers
For John Kelly the boy from Killane

Enniscorthy's in flames and old Wexford is won
And tomorrow the Barrow we will cross
On a hill o'er the town we have planted a gun
That will batter the gateway to Ross
All the Forth men and Bargy men will march o'er the heath
With brave Harvey to lead in the van
But the foremost of all in that grim gap of death
Will be Kelly the boy from Killane

But the gold sun of freedom grew darkened at Ross
And it set by the Slaney's red waves
And poor Wexford stripped naked, hung high on a cross
With her heart pierced by traitors and slaves
Glory-o, glory-o to her brave sons who died
For the cause of long down-trodden man
Glory-o to Mount Leinster's own darling and pride
Dauntless Kelly the boy from Killane

See also
 Wexford Rebellion of 1798
 Bagenal Harvey, John Henry Colclough, Cornelius Grogan, Matthew Keogh, Philip Roche – Rebel leaders hanged on Wexford bridge, 25/28 June 1798

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Year of birth missing
1798 deaths
People from County Wexford
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People executed by the Kingdom of Ireland by hanging
Ballads of the Irish Rebellion of 1798
Executed people from County Wexford
존 켈리(John Kelly, ?~1798년 6월 22일)는 아일랜드의 독립 운동가이다. 1798년 아일랜드인들이 잉글랜드의 지배에 맞서서 반란을 일으켰을 때 반란군 지도자들 가운데 한 사람이었다. 켈리 더 보이 프럼 킬란(Kelly, the Boy From Killan(e)이라는 별칭으로 통한다. 이는 켈리의 고향이 킬란(Killan/Killane)이었기 때문이다. 다리에 부상을 입고 체포되었으며, 1798년 6월 21일 아일랜드 독립군의 패배 다음날 교수형에 처해졌다. 잉글랜드군은 존 켈리의 시신을 참수하여 그 머리를 축구공 차듯이 차고 노는 만행을 저질렀다고 한다. 1911년에 패트릭 조지프 매콜(Patrick Joseph McCall, 1861~1919)이라는 시인 겸 작곡가가 존 켈리의 독립운동을 소재로 켈리 더 보이 프럼 킬란이라는 포크송을 지었다.

켈리 더 보이 프럼 킬란 가사 
What's the news, what's the news oh my bold Shelmalier
With your long barrelled guns from the sea
Say what wind from the south brings a messenger here
With the hymn of the dawn for the free
Goodly news, goodly news do I bring youth of Forth
Goodly news shall you hear Bargy man
For the boys march at dawn from the south to the north
Led by Kelly the boy from Killane

Tell me who is that giant with the gold curling hair
He who rides at the head of your band
Seven feet is his height with some inches to spare
And he looks like a king in command
Ah my boys that's the pride of the bold Shelmaliers
'Mongst greatest of hero's a man
Fling your beavers aloft and give three ringing cheers
For John Kelly the boy from Killane

Enniscorthy's in flames and old Wexford is won
And tomorrow the Barrow we will cross
On a hill o'er the town we have planted a gun
That will batter the gateway to Ross
All the Forth men and Bargy men will march o'er the heath
With brave Harvey to lead in the van
But the foremost of all in that grim gap of death
Will be Kelly the boy from Killane

But the gold sun of freedom grew darkened at Ross
And it set by the Slaney's red waves
And poor Wexford stripped naked, hung high on a cross
With her heart pierced by traitors and slaves
Glory-o, glory-o to her brave sons who died
For the cause of long down trodden man
Glory-o to Mount Leinster's own darling and pride
Dauntless Kelly the boy from Killane

내용 분석 
같은 아일랜드 독립운동가 로디 매컬리를 소재로 한 1898년도 에트나 카버리의 포크송과 유사한 점이 많지만, 켈리 더 보이 프럼 킬란은 서사적인 요소가 강하고, 로디 매컬리는 서정적인 요소가 강하다. 1연에서는 아일랜드의 독립을 위하여 일어선 아일랜드 독립군 이야기로 시작하여, 독립군 지도자 켈리의 이름을 언급하고 있다. 켈리를 보이(소년)으로 묘사한 것으로 보아 당시 존 켈리는 청산리 대첩 때 이범석 장군처럼 나이가 아주 젊었을 가능성이 높다. 2연에서는 켈리의 모습을 묘사하고 있는데, 키가 7피트(2미터 10센티미터)이고 머리가 곱슬이라고 표현되어 있다. 켈리가 독립군을 이끄는 모습이 마치 왕과 같다고 하고 있는데, 이는 당시의 영국 왕을 인정하지 않으려는 아일랜드인들의 민족 의식이 반영되어 있다고 할 수 있다. 3연에서는 켈리가 이끄는 아일랜드 독립군이 진격하는 모습을 묘사하고 있다. 4연은 아일랜드 독립군의 패배를 다루고 있는데, 시상이 완전히 반전되고 있다. 'gold sun of freedom grew darkened'(자유의 금빛 태양이 어두워졌다)는 은유적 표현을 활용하고 있으며, 웩스퍼드(아일랜드 독립군이 반란을 일으킨 도시 이름)를 의인화하여 'poor Wexford stripped naked, hung high on a cross'(불쌍한 웩스퍼드는 벗겨져 십자가에 높이 매달려 있다)라고 표현하고 있다. 웩스퍼드를 의인화하여(한국으로 따지자면 봉오동, 청산리나 탑골 공원, 아우내 장터 등등) 아일랜드 독립군의 패배를 '웩스퍼드가 십자가에 매달려 있다'라고 표현하고 있다. 화자는 'her brave sons who died'(그녀의 죽은 용감한 아들들)을 언급하고 있다. 아일랜드는 토머스 무어의 시 '렛 에린 리멤버'(Let Erin Remember)에서처럼 여성으로 표현되는 경우가 많다. 아일랜드라는 나라는 아일랜드인들에게 모성적 이미지로 인식되고 있기 때문이다. 따라서 이 표현은 아일랜드의 독립을 위해 투쟁하다가 죽은 독립 운동가들에 대한 추모의 표현이다. 화자는 마지막으로 독립군 지도자 존 켈리의 이름을 다시 언급하면서 시상을 마무리짓고 있다.

수록 앨범 
 더 클랜시 브라더스: 1956년도 <The Rising of the Moon>, 1964년도 <The First Hurrah> 등 다수
 더 더블리너스: 1967년도 <More of the Hard Stuff>, 1977년도 <Live at Montreux> 등 다수
 패디 레일리: 1972년도 <Paddy Reilly At Home>

1798년 사망
아일랜드 사람
아일랜드의 음악
아일랜드의 독립운동가
웩스퍼드주 출신
사형된 아일랜드 사람