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Con Colbert

16Lives
16Lives

von: John O'Callaghan
9,99 €
Verlag:	The O'brien Press
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	16.03.2015
ISBN/EAN:	9781847177476
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	256

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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 Éireann, the republican boy-scout movement. An unswerving patriot and idealist, he worked tirelessly for the dream of an Irish-speaking, independent republic. Even before his execution, Colbert was held up as an icon and a role model for the Irish Volunteers.
Colbert commanded a company at Watkins' Brewery and at Jameson's Distillery during the Rising. Inspiring men by example, he showed no fear in the face of danger and confronted his own death with equanimity.
Con Colbert was executed at Kilmainham Gaol on 8 May 1916, aged twenty-seven.

Autorenportrait

Dr John O'Callaghan lectures in St. Angela's College, Sligo. His research focuses on twentieth-century Ireland and processes of imperialism and anti-imperialism, the education system, political and military history, sports history, and commemoration. His publications include: Teaching Irish Independence: History in Irish Schools, 1922-72 (Newcastle, 2009); Revolutionary Limerick - The Republican Campaign for Independence in Limerick, 1913-21 (Dublin, 2010); The Battle for Kilmallock (Cork, 2011); Subversive Voices: Narratives of the Occluded Irish Diaspora (Oxford, 2012); Plassey's Gaels: GAA in the University of Limerick (Cork, 2013)