Background
Ó Conceanainn was a native of Inis Meáin, a son of Páidín Ó Conceanainn and Anne Ní Fathartaigh.
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Tomas Conceanainn
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He was educated on the island and at the Patrician national school in Galway.
Career
In accountancy. He set up practise in Mexico. Returning to Ireland in 1898 on holiday he became involved with the Gaelic League, so much so that he remained in the country as one of its organisers. On a 1905 journey to the United States of America with Douglas Hyde, they collected twenty thousand dollars.
However, they returned it for the relief of San Francisco in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake.
He remained an organiser till 1911. He retired in 1938, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by University College, Galway.
He died in Galway in 1946.
