De Bhaldraithe is born Thomas MacDonagh Waldron, one of five children of Pádraig de Bhaldraithe,civil servantfromNenagh,County Tipperary, and Eilís Nic Conmara from nearKilkee,County Clare. He is named afterThomas MacDonagh, one of the signatories of theProclamation of the Irish Republic, ...