Jack Finucane (1937 – 7 June 2017) was a Roman Catholic missionary of the Spiritan Fathers order, who with his brother Aengus Finucane, organized food shipments from Ireland to the Igbo people during the Nigerian Civil War.
[1][2][3] Finucane was born in 1937, in the city of Limerick, Ireland, along with his twin brother.
[2][5] Jack was sent to Nigeria, and, along with his brother Aengus, he was involved in the provision of humanitarian aid during the Nigerian Civil War, and the founding and creation of Concern Worldwide.
[1] Returning to Dublin in 1991, he became a regional director for Concern Worldwide, until he officially retired in 2002.
[6] He died suddenly in Kimmage Manor, on Wednesday 7 June 2017, and is buried in the Spiritan plot in Dardistown Cemetery.