Seán Tubridy (1897 – 15 July 1939) was an Irish politician and medical practitioner. Tubridy had two terms as a Fianna FáilTD for Galway, from 1927 to 1932 and 1937 to 1939. 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.
Early life
John Andrew Tubridy was born in 1897 at Galway, to Patrick Tubridy and Jane Waldron. He had only one sibling, a sister, Mary Margaret Patricia Tubridy. Seán's father was from Kilmurry Ibrickane, County Clare, and his mother from Kilkelly, County Mayo; the two were Gaeilgeoirí and had moved to the Irish-speaking area of Connemara to teach at the Scoil Mhic Dara in Carraroe. They worked with Roger Casement and helped to set up a fund for free school dinners there. The two had a feud with a priest by the name of Fr. Healy and were attacked from the pulpit, but they received support from local parents.[citation needed]
Tubridy was a medical practitioner who fought against the epidemics of cholera, typhus and the Spanish Flu in Connemara. He married a Dubliner, Kathleen Moira Ryan, daughter of Hugh Ryan, the Professor of Chemistry at University College Dublin. The youngest of their three children[1] was a son Patrick Tubridy, who married Catherine Andrews, the daughter of Todd Andrews, a prominent former member of the Irish Republican Army. Patrick himself had several children, including the broadcaster Ryan Tubridy.[2]
