St Mirin's Academy was a Catholic senior secondary school for boys founded in 1922 in Paisley, Scotland, and which closed in 1976. The school was dedicated...
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(i.e. Mirin's Island) in Loch Lomond and a farm called Knockmurran (i.e. Mirin's Hill) near Coylton in Ayrshire are named after him. St Mirin's Well can...
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Joe Egan (musician) (category People educated at St Mirin's Academy)
Catholic family in Paisley in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Along with former St Mirin's Academy schoolmate Gerry Rafferty, he played in various smaller British bands...
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John Reid (music manager) (category People educated at St Mirin's Academy)
was brought up in the Gallowhill district of Paisley. He attended St Mirin's Academy, where he was a fellow pupil with singers Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan...
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John Byrne (playwright) (category People educated at St Mirin's Academy)
dying in Dykebar Hospital at the age of 74. Byrne was educated at St Mirin's Academy, Paisley and then attended Glasgow School of Art, from which he graduated...
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Gerry Rafferty (category People educated at St Mirin's Academy)
the town's Ferguslie Park, in Underwood Lane, and was educated at St Mirin's Academy. His Irish-born father, an alcoholic, was a miner and lorry driver...
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David Hay (category People educated at St Mirin's Academy)
subsequently worked for St Mirren, Livingston and Dunfermline Athletic. After completing his secondary education at St Mirin's Academy in Paisley, Hay signed...
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Hugh Henry (category People educated at St Mirin's Academy)
in Glasgow and raised in Erskine, Renfrewshire. He was educated at St Mirin's Academy in Paisley, the University of Glasgow and Jordanhill College of Education...
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Willie Young (footballer, born 1956) (category People educated at St Mirin's Academy)
Football League for Aston Villa and Torquay United. He was educated at St Mirin's Academy, Paisley. [citation needed] Young joined Aston Villa in July 1978...
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James Goodfellow (category People educated at St Mirin's Academy)
Goodfellow was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, where he later attended St Mirin's Academy. As a 28-year-old development engineer at Kelvin Hughes, he was given...
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