Author

Contributions

  • Munns, Joy, 1945- author - Contributor

Publication

2016 - Arcadia, North Melburne, Vic, Victoria

Language

English

Word Count

24,500 words, Guess

Page Count

98 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC364.1552092
  • LCCDU115.2.D66 M38 2016

Description

"The Wild Colonial Boy -- a fictitious character or a badly corrupted version of Bold Jack Donohoe, a convict bushranger born in Dublin and killed in NSW in 1830? Before the first edition of this book appeared in 2004 the standard reference works were agreed that there was no bushranger called Jack Doolan or Dowling or Duggan active in the 1860s, but they were wrong. Allen Mawer had found John Doolan and confirmed that the song was right to say that he had been born in Castlemaine. Even more remarkably, Doolan's personal history had connections with the song. And how that came about was quite a story in itself."--Page 4 of cover.

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