John Finucane (Limerick politician) explained

John Finucane (c. 1843 – 23 March 1902) was an Irish farmer and politician.^[1]

Finucane was educated at Thurles College (taking first honours in rhetoric, logic and metaphysic) and Maynooth College, with the intention of joining the priesthood.^[2] Instead he became a farmer, and was for many years Honorary Secretary of the Limerick and Clare Farmers' Club.^[3]

From 1885 to 1900 he was Member of Parliament for County Limerick East, representing the Irish Parliamentary Party. At the time of the Parnell split he was an anti-Parnellite. He lived in Coole House, Caherelly, County Limerick.^[1]

External links

• • John Finucane listing on 1901 Census of Ireland

Notes and References

1. ‘FINUCANE, John’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 14 July 2013
2. The New House of Commons: With Biographical Notices of its Members and of Nominated Candidates (George Edward Wright, 1885) page 383.
3. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Branch (Dean and Son, 1896), p. 52.