Con Colbert: 16lives

by John O'Callaghan

Con Colbert was one of the lesser-known leaders of the 1916 Rising. From a comfortable background in Newcastlewest, County Limerick, he moved to Dublin aged fifteen and worked as a junior clerk in a bakery. Already politically radicalised, he became captain of the first troop of Na Fianna ireann, the republican boy-scout movement. An unswerving patriot and idealist, he worked tirelessly for the dream of an Irish-speaking, independent republic. Even...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847173349
• ISBN13: 9781847173348
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: O'Brien Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.7"