 Complete the following phrase:  OConnell was born near Knock, County Mayo as Thomas J. Connell, the second child of Mary Biesty and Tom Connell. As part of the Gaelic revival, his family adopted the prefix O to their surname in the early 20th Century. His father was a farmer who was politically active and a community leader. Family lore held that his father had been a Fenian who had taken part in the 