What is Jack Donahue?
'''Jack Donahue''' (1804 — 1 September, 1830),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://scs.une.edu.au/Bushrangers/donohoe.htm |title=Bushrangers John Donohoe |publisher=scs.une.edu.au |accessdate=2009-03-11 |last= |first= |archive-date=2009-08-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804072631/http://scs.une.edu.au/bushrangers/donohoe.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> sometimes called '''John Donohue''', was a famous [[Australian]] [[bushranger]]. With the exception of [[Ned Kelly]], there have been more [[song]]s, [[poem]]s and stories about him than any other bushranger.<ref name=bw>{{cite book | last =Wannan | first =Bill | authorlink = | title = Tell 'em I died game: The Stark Story of Australian Bushranging| publisher =Lansdowne Press | date =1963 | location =[[Melbourne]] | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = }}</ref> He quickly became a [[folk hero]]. [[Governor]] [[Ralph Darling]] told [[hotel]] owners they would have their hotels closed if they allowed people to sing songs about Donahue.<ref name=bw/> ==Early life== Jack Donahue was born in [[Dublin]], [[Ireland]] in 1804. He was in trouble with the [[police]] for his [[political]] activities to gain [[independence]] for Ireland. In 1824, he was found [[guilty]] of “intent to commit a felony”. This means he was going to do something wrong, but he had not done it yet. He was sent to [[Sydney]] on the [[convict]] ship ''Ann and Amelia'', which arrived on 2 January, 1825. He was sent to work for a Mr. Pagan at [[Parramatta, New South Wales|Parramatta]]. He was soon in trouble and put to work on a road gang. Major West, at Quaker’s Hill, employed Donahue to look after his pigs.<ref name=bw/> With two other men, George Kilroy and Bill Smith, he held up some carts on the Richmond Road. The police soon caught them and the [[court]] sentenced them to death. As he was being taken back to [[gaol]] (jail) in Sydney he escaped. The government offered a [[reward]] of £20 for his capture. ==Bushranger== In August 1828, Donahue and a gang of eight robbed houses south o