Kildare (disambiguation)

Kildare may refer to:

Places

Australia

• Kildare, Victoria, Australia, now known as Geelong West

Canada

• Kildare (Edmonton), a residential neighbourhood in Edmonton, Canada
• Kildare Township in Quebec, see Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare and Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare

Ireland

• County Kildare, an administrative region in the east of the Republic of Ireland
  • Kildare, the town from which the county name is derived
  • Kildare railway station, the railway station in Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland
  • History of County Kildare, a history of the county
  • Kildare Abbey

United States

• Kildare, Oklahoma, United States
• Kildare, Texas, United States, an unincorporated community
• Kildare, Wisconsin, United States

Irish constituencies

The county of Kildare in Ireland has been represented by several parliamentary constituencies:

Parliament of Ireland, to 1800

• Athy (Parliament of Ireland constituency) (1614–1800)
• Harristown (Parliament of Ireland constituency) (1684–1800)
• Kildare Borough (Parliament of Ireland constituency) (????–1800)
• Kildare County (Parliament of Ireland constituency) (????–1800)
• Naas (Parliament of Ireland constituency) (1570–1800)

House of Commons of the United Kingdom, (1801–1922) and First Dáil (1918)

• Kildare (UK Parliament constituency) (1801–1885)
• North Kildare (UK Parliament constituency) (1885–1922)
• South Kildare (UK Parliament constituency) (1885–1922)

Dáil Éireann (since 1918)

• Kildare–Wicklow (Dáil constituency) (1921–1923)
• Kildare (Dáil constituency) (1923–1937)
• Kildare (Dáil constituency) (1948–1997)
• Kildare North (Dáil constituency) (1997–)
• Kildare South (Dáil constituency) (1997–)

People

• Brigid of Kildare, an Irish saint also known as Saint Brigid
• D. Kildare, an American poet
• Owen Kildare (1864–1911), an American writer
• Earl of Kildare, an Irish peerage title since 1316
• Kildare Dobbs, a Canadian writer

People in fiction

• Dr. Kildare, from a series of American films in the 1930s and 1940s, also a 1950s radio series and a 1960s television series
• Young Dr. Kildare, 1938 film starring Lew Ayres as the idealistic but somewhat immature young medical doctor
• Kildare, the fairy protagonist of the comic book Aria
• Kildare Gygax, the son of Colin and Ellie Gygax (aka No. 7 and No. 8) in the book Daniel X: Game Over.

Organisations

• Kildare College, a secondary college for girls in Australia
• Kildare County Council, the local authority for County Kildare
• Kildare County F.C., a football club from Newbridge, County Kildare
• Kildare GAA, responsible for Gaelic Games in County Kildare
• Kildare Senior Football Championship, competition between the top Kildare Clubs
• Kildare Senior Hurling Championship, competition between the top Kildare Clubs
• Kildare Catholic College, a secondary college in Australia
• Kildare's Irish Pub, a popular "Irish" pub

Music

• The Killdares, an Irish band