Not the same as LC/NAF Kirwan, John, Sir (LCCN nr93044529), appellant in an appeals case of 1721.
An empty land, 1934: title page (Sir John Kirwan)
ADB online 20 July 2018 (Sir John Waters Kirwan (1869-1949), journalist and politician, was born on 2 December 1869 in Liverpool, England. After leaving school Kirwan worked for two years for the Dublin Morning Mail and Evening Mail while doing some freelance work. On 25 May 1889 he sailed with his sister for Australia to join his brother Edmund, a journalist on the Brisbane Courier. He worked at several newspapers, before moving to Kalgoorlie, where he became joint proprietor of local papers and was instrumental in bringing Western Australia into the Australian federation, which took place in 1901. He was a member of the Western Australia Parliament from 1908. He was knighted in 1930. he died in Subiaco, Perth, on 9 September 1949.) http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kirwan-sir-john-waters-6978