The wild colonial boys
Subtitle: Jack Doolan and his song
By: Granville Allen Mawer ; with additional family research by Joy Munns
Contributors: Munns, Joy, 1945- author
Edition: Revised edition.
Publisher: Arcadia
Published: 2016
Place of publication: North Melburne, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9781925333930
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Bushrangers; Biography; English Ballads; History and criticism
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.
Notes: First published in 2004 as The wild colonial boy:  the life & legend of Jack Doolan.

Includes bibliographical references.