Conmee, Father John. Jesuit priest, rector of Clongowes Wood College, which Stephen Dedalus attended as a boy. Stephen remembers him briefly in Scylla & Charybdis; he also appears in Wandering Rocks and Circe. Conmee also appears in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In real life, Father Conmee helped Joyce and his brother Stanislaus get scholarships at Belvedere College; his kind consideration is reflected in his fictional counterpart’s concern for Dignam’s widow and children.