Jack_Donohoe

// Jack Donohoe Also Know as **Bold** // // (The last of the convict outlaws) //
 * Soon after being transported to Botany Bay from Dublin in 1825 Jack // Donohue // // took // up with two other Irish convicts, robbing bullock drays on the Windsor Road, west of Sydney.
 * // Jack Donohoe had several ballads penned to commemorate his exploits in NSW and even several versions of the most famous bushrangers balled of them all-the //// wild colonial boy. //// This song became the first unofficial Australian anthem of 19th century. Until it was banned for its ‘seditious sentiment’ however it would not die, and the name was changed and then the lyrics were changed so the events were hardly recognised and // eventually the authorities had to give up in banning it being sung. The ethos of the song is captured in the line: // I’ll fight but not surrender cried the Wild Colonial Boy //.