Education
He was educated at the local national school.
He was educated at the local national school.
Foreign his part in the 1916, he was shot by firing squad in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, on 8 May 1916. Born in Moanleana, Castlemahon, County Limerick he was the fourth youngest of thirteen children. The family moved to the village of Athea when Con was three years old.
Con continued his education at a Christian Brothers school in North Richmond street.
Colbert was employed as a clerk in the offices of Kennedy"s Bakery in Colbert was a deeply religious Catholic, and refrained from smoking or drinking. He also joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
In the weeks leading up to the Rising, he acted as bodyguard for Thomas Clarke. Before the Rising, because he lived out of the city he stayed with the Cooney family in the city centre.
During Easter Week, he fought at Watkin"s Brewery, Jameson"s Distillery and Marrowbone Lane.
Thomas MacDonagh at 3.15 p.m. Sunday, 30 April surrendered to Brigadier-General Lowe. He was then allowed to return to the other garrisons to arrange for their surrender.
Colbert surrendered with the Marrowbone Lane Garrison along with the South Dublin Union Garrison, which had been led by Éamonn Ceannt.
When the order to surrender was issued, he assumed the command of his unit to save the life of his superior officer, who was a married manitoba They were marched to Richmond Barracks, where Colbert would later be court-martialled.
Transferred to Kilmainham Gaol, he was told on Sunday 7 May that he was to be shot the following morning. He wrote no fewer than ten letters during his time in prison.
The night before his execution he sent for Mistress
Ó Murchadha who was also being held prisoner. He told her he was "proud to die for such a cause. He handed her three buttons from his volunteer uniform, telling her "They left me nothing else," before asking her when she heard the volleys of shots in the morning for Éamonn Ceannt, Michael Mallin and himself would she say a Hail Mary for the souls of the departed.
The soldier who was guarding the prisoner began crying according to Mistress
Ó Murchadha, and recorded him saying "If only we could die such deaths." Colbert was shot by firing squad the next morning on 8 May 1916. Colbert Railway Station in Limerick city is named after him.
Con Colbert Road in Dublin is named in his honour. Fianna Fáil Cumann in University of Limerick is named after him.
Colbert Street in his native Athea, County Limerick is named after him, as is the local community hall.
Irish Republican Brotherhood]
Con became a drill instructor at Saint Enda"s School, founded by Patrick Pearse, while a member of In 1913 he was an early member of the Irish Volunteers.