John Stephen Conmee SJ (25 December 1847 – 1910) was an Irish Jesuit educator.
He was born in County Roscommon into a wealthy farming family and was educated at Castleknock College and Clongowes Wood College.
[1][2][3] He influenced his student James Joyce and became a character in Joyce's novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses.
Conmee was influential in granting Joyce and his brothers a scholarship place at Belvedere College, County Dublin in 1893 when Joyce's family collapsed into poverty.
Margot Norris analyzed Conmee's existence in some of Joyce's writing.