John Finucane (c. 1843 – 23 March 1902) was an Irish farmer and politician.‘FINUCANE, John’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 14 July 2013
Finucane was educated at Thurles College (taking first honours in rhetoric, logic and metaphysic) and Maynooth College, with the intention of joining the priesthood.The New House of Commons: With Biographical Notices of its Members and of Nominated Candidates (George Edward Wright, 1885) page 383. Instead he became a farmer, and was for many years Honorary Secretary of the Limerick and Clare Farmers' Club.Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Branch (Dean and Son, 1896), p. 52.
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.
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John Finucane listing on 1901 Census of Ireland