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William Bourke Kirwan
      
Life
?1814-? b. Dublin, miniature painter; exhibited RHA 1836-46; in 1852;
condemned to death for the murder of his wife on Irelands Eye, having
for years lived with a mistress at Sandymount; sentence commuted to life
transportation; subject of an account in Bodkins Famous Irish
Trials, and a play be Denis Johnston. DIB
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