| 词条 | Tomás Bán Ó Conceanainn |
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}}{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2014}} Tomás Bán Ó Conceanainn (16 November 1870 – 20 April 1961) Thomas Concannon was an Irish writer and historian. LifeÓ Conceanainn was a native of Inis Meáin, a son of Páidín Ó Conceanainn and Anne Ní Fathartaigh. He was educated on the island and at the Patrician national school in Galway. In 1885 he went to the US with his brother, attending Boston College and Liveamore College, California, graduating from Eastman College, New York, with a M.A. 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 USA 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. His wife was Helena Concannon, with whom he collaborated on a number of books. He retired in 1938, and was awarded an honorary LL.D. by University College, Galway. He died in Galway in 1946. Select bibliography
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