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In 1992, Irwin and his wife, Kathleen, married. Later that same year, Kathleen gave birth to twins. One of the twins, Ian, was stillborn and the other, Tristan, was born profoundly disabled and microcephalic with the spastic quadriplegia form of cerebral palsy characterized by extremely limited motor skills and cognitive abilities. Two stories and one song on Irwin’s album Crowd Control recount his experiences of loving and living with a severely disabled child. Defying medical expectation (Irwin jokes that Tristan flunked out of in-the-home hospice care for not dying on schedule), Tristan lived to the age of eleven, dying in 2004.
Irwin resides in Covington, Georgia with his wife and their son, Liam (born 1999). Irwin is 6 feet 4 inches (193 cm) tall.
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