Kirwan ( ga, Ó/Ní Chiarbháin) may refer to:
Places
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Kirwan, Queensland, suburb in the Australian city of Townsville
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Kairouan, also known as Kirwan, the capital of the Kairouan Governorate in Tunisia
People
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A. D. Kirwan (1904–1971), former professor, administrator, coach and president of the University of Kentucky
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Annette Kirwan
Edward Henry Carson, 1st Baron Carson, PC, PC (Ire) (9 February 1854 – 22 October 1935), from 1900 to 1921 known as Sir Edward Carson, was an Irish unionist politician, barrister and judge, who served as the Attorney General and Solicito ...
(died 1913), Irish noble
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Barry Kirwan (born 1986), Northern Irish country / folk singer, songwriter and drummer
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Carl Kirwan
Carl Kirwan (born 21 March 1991) is an English rugby union player who plays for Nottingham in the RFU Championship.
Kirwan came through the Newcastle Falcons academy, previously spent two years at Rotherham Titans following a spell with hom ...
(born 1991), English rugby union player
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Danny Kirwan (1950–2018), guitarist with Fleetwood Mac from 1968 to 1972
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Dervla Kirwan (born 1971), actress
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Edward Kirwan (1814–1890), English clergyman and cricketer
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Eilis Kirwan (born 1972), Irish filmmaker
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Frances Kirwan
Dame Frances Clare Kirwan, (born 21 August 1959) is a British mathematician, currently Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford. Her fields of specialisation are algebraic and symplectic geometry.
Education
Kirwan was ed ...
(born 1959), British mathematician
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John Kirwan (disambiguation) John Kirwan may refer to:
* John Óge Kirwan (fl. 1530–1531), mayor of Galway
* Sir John Kirwan (1650–1721), Irish entrepreneur
* John Kirwan (cricketer) (1816–1899), English cricketer
* John Kirwan (politician) (1869–1949), Australian p ...
, several persons of this name
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Joseph W. Kirwan
Joseph William Kirwan (1796 – 24 December 1849) was an Irish clergyman and educationalist, who served as the first president of Queen's College Galway.
Kirwan was born in Galway in 1796. He entered the National Seminary at St Patrick's Coll ...
(1796–1849), Irish clergyman
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Larry Kirwan (born 1954), musician and playwright best known for his work with Black 47
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Laurence A. Kirwan (born 1952), English doctor
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Laurence P. Kirwan
Sir Archibald Laurence Patrick Kirwan KCMG (13 May 1907 – 16 April 1999) was a British archaeologist and geographer who made major contributions to the study of ancient Egypt, Nubia, East Africa and South Arabia. ''The Guardian'', in his obitua ...
(1907–1999), British archaeologist
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Michael J. Kirwan (1886–1970), congressman, Democrat Ohio 1937–1970
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Richard Kirwan of Galway (1733–1812), prominent philosopher and chemist
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Nicholas Murray (Presbyterian)
Nicholas Murray (December 25, 1802 – February 4, 1861) was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.
Biography
Murray was born in Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland, on December 25, 1802. In ...
(1802–1861), Irish-American writer, whose pseudonym was Kirwan
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William Burke Kirwan
William Burke Kirwan (c.1814–1880?) was a minor Irish painter best known for the murder of his wife, Sarah Maria Louisa Kirwan. The resulting trial was one of the most notorious in Victorian Ireland.
Early life
William Bourke Kirwan was born i ...
(born 1814), Irish painter and convicted murderer
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Tribes of Galway
Other uses
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Château Kirwan
Château Kirwan is a winery in the Margaux appellation of the Bordeaux region of France. The wine produced here was classified as one of fourteen ''Troisièmes Crus'' (Third Growths) in the historic Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1 ...
, Bordeaux wine producer, formerly named simply Kirwan
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