His parents had originally moved to Carraroe in Connemara to teach at the local Irish-language school.

Tubridy was also involved in Gaeltacht affairs and in the mid-1930s was a co-founder of Muintir na Gaeltachta, along with Peadar Duignan and Máirtín Ó Cadhain.

They worked with Roger Casement and helped to set up a fund for free school dinners there.

[citation needed] Tubridy was a medical practitioner who fought against the epidemics of cholera, typhus and the Spanish Flu in Connemara.

The by-election caused by his death was held on 30 May 1940 and was won by John J. Keane of Fianna Fáil.