John Conmee

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.