- Fintan Kilbride
Infobox Person
name = Fintan Kilbride
image_size =
caption =
birth_date = Birth date|1927|03|18
birth_place =Bray ,County Wicklow ,Ireland
death_date = Death date and age|2006|12|21|1927|03|18
death_place =Toronto ,Canada
known_for =
occupation =
spouse = Kenise Murphy Kilbride
children = Siobhan Kilbride Ciara Kilbride Amaral
website =
footnotes =Fintan Kilbride (
March 18 ,1927 -December 21 ,2006 ) was a Catholic priest and teacher committed to the poor.Biography
Early life and missionary work
Fintan was born in
Bray ,County Wicklow ,Ireland . He grew up inClonmel ,County Tipperary . He joined theHoly Ghost Fathers and served as a missionary in Nigeria, where he taught in high schools, helped build a hospital and three schools, and founded a teacher’s college inNigeria . He was expelled fromBiafra in 1970.Marriage and children
He married Kenise Murphy Kilbride in 1973. The couple had two children, Siobhan Kilbride and Ciara Kilbride Amaral.
Career
After Nigeria, Kilbride settled in
Toronto ,Canada . He taught English atNeil McNeil Catholic Secondary School from 1975 to 1992. He was active in social justice causes, co-founding the Ecumenical Good Friday Walk in 1979 [cite news |first=Brian |last=Burch |title=Living passion: ecumenical Good Friday and a walk for social justice |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0MKY/is_8_28/ai_n6244722 |work=Catholic New Times |date=2004-05-09 |accessdate=2007-11-23 ] , and created Students Crossing Borders in 1991, a program that introduced youth to the realities of living and working in less developed countries, and to the responsibilities that privilege brings. [cite news |first=Theresa |last=Spohn |title=No longer oblivious to human suffering |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0MKY/is_18_26/ai_111696854 |work=Catholic New Times |date=2002-12-01 |accessdate=2007-11-23 ] He served on the board of directors ofFree The Children .Death and afterward
Peacefully with his wife Kenise Murphy Kilbride, Fintan died December 21, 2006.
Awards
*2005: Marion Tyrrell Award of Merit, Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association [cite news |first=Ted |last=Schmidt |title=Fintan, the Unforgettable |url=http://tomorrowstrust.ca/?p=181 |work=Tomorrow’s Trust: A Review of Catholic Education |date=2007-01-06 |accessdate=2007-11-23]
*2005: Lewis Perinbam Award, World University Service of Canada [ [http://www.wusc.ca/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/filemanager/files/alumni/F5-Perinbam-past-recipients.pdf Lewis Perinbam Award Past Recipients] ]References
External links
* [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20061223.93077532/BDAStory/BDA/ Fintan Kilbride obituary]
* [http://www.goodfridaywalk.ca/ Ecumenical Good Friday Walk]
* [http://www.studentscrossingborders.org/ Students Crossing Borders]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
