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William Bourke Kirwan was born in Dublin in 1814 into an artistic family. He studied art under the portrait painter
Richard Downes Bowyer, and exhibited various pieces of art at the Royal Hibernian Academy in the 1830s and 1840s. He later worked as an engraver, picture cleaner, and anatomical
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Amongst the prisoners at Boaz Island is the painter Kirwan, who was sentenced to be hanged some years ago for the murder of his wife at
Ireland Eye, near Dublin. He was saved from the gibbet, chiefly by the exertions of the
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