Colm Tóibín: ‘I am much less sociable now, as I don’t drink any more’
For the author of A Long Winter and Ship in Full Sail, inspiration often comes subliminally. But he has also brought his inner self to the surface through therapy
Prof Ivor Browne
Irish psychiatrist
Could Michael D topple Christy from the top of the album charts?
President Michael D Higgins records an LP; the Oireachtas spends more taxpayers’ cash on something it’s not clear we need; and an ex-rugby star encounters some unwanted wingers
Ranelagh home of trailblazers in psychiatry and feminism for €975,000
Prof Ivor Browne and feminist June Levine hosted Sebastian Barry, Charlie Haughey and others at D6 home
Ivor Browne obituary: Pioneering psychiatrist who was a musician at heart
His true legacy was the freedom enjoyed by thousands of people who avoided institutionalisation as a result of the reforms
Thousands avoided being locked up in institutions thanks to Prof Ivor Browne, funeral hears
President Michael D Higgins in attendance as ‘iconoclastic, unafraid’ psychiatrist is laid to rest
Fintan O’Toole: We trusted Ivor Browne with our darkest secrets. He was one of Ireland’s great liberators
Few did more to remove the barriers that separated mentally ill people from the rest of society
Ivor Browne - in his own words: ‘We’re living in a society that is driving people mad’
Browne, one of Ireland’s best known psychiatrists, on mental illness, Eastern philosophy, nature and more
Groundbreaking Irish psychiatrist Ivor Browne dies aged 94
Dubliner transformed Irish attitudes to mental illness and developed understanding of the role of trauma
Garech de Brún, Paddy Moloney and the reinvention of Claddagh Records
The dying wish of label’s founder was to revive a company known for trad records
Claddagh Records agrees licensing deal with Universal
Independent label’s back catalogue includes Chieftains and Seán Ó Riada
Mary Coughlan: ‘32 times I ended up in hospital with alcohol poisoning’
Through addiction, infidelity and other life struggles, music was her constant escape
Rings bring Claddagh Records story full circle
Claddagh rings from Garech Browne’s collection feature in a forthcoming Sotheby’s sale. Jane Bolton who helped Browne set up Claddagh Records is still running the Temple Bar shop today
Miriam Lord: Sinn Féin’s answer to St Francis of Assisi canvasses in Waterford
Heartwarming tale of a starling, a hedgehog, a badger and the local election candidate
Tony Walsh possibly ‘most notorious clerical child sexual abuser’ in Dublin
Murphy report said it was ‘likely that he has abused hundreds of children’
The ‘Harley Davidson’ man dispensing more than just drugs in Galway
Galway pharmacist Frank McAnena’s doorstep calls to patients saves lives and money. So why won’t health officials listen to him?
President pays tribute to ‘courageous being’ Tom Murphy
Over 600, including big cross-section from theatre and arts , attend humanist service
Rose Callaly: ‘We were touched by evil when Rachel died’
TV Review: Rachel O’Reilly’s parents speak out in Mick Peelo’s fascinating documentary
Una Mullally: Remembering Kate Millett and her Irish Loony-Bin Trip
The late American feminist was committed to an Irish mental hospital and rescued by friends
Tom Murphy receives highest arts honour from President
New Aosdána Saoi described as the ‘great playwright of the emigrant’
Key figure in the State’s first marine policy
Eoin Sweeney obituary: Born October 12th, 1947 – Died July 7th, 2017
Mary Coughlan “I could have died and I’m not thinking about that”
Róisín Meets Podcast: Galway singer is back on stage at Vicar Street next month after overcoming heart disease
Meetings With Ivor review: a tie-dyed in the wool, almost mystical guru
This documentary about Prof Ivor Browne portrays a divisive figure in a playful way, and is alive to his flaws as his far-out ideas
In praise of Ivor Browne: groundbreaker, lifesaver
The Irish psychiatrist at the heart of a new documentary has transformed our view of mental illness
Colm Tóibín: enjoying life on the Brooklyn road
As the film of ‘Brooklyn’ gets good reviews, Tóibín’s status at home and abroad rises yet another notch
David Norris says gay cousins should be allowed to marry
Senator makes suggestion during the introduction of the Marriage Bill in the Seanad
The drama and debacle of the Sallins train robbery
Musician Cormac Breatnach’s brother was wrongly convicted of the 1976 Sallins Mail Train Robbery at the behest of a cohort within the Garda. Now he hopes a new theatre show will cast light on the injustice
Dublin priest says archbishops remind him of the Housemartins
Band found success with ‘mixture of populist politics and Christianity’
Colm Tóibín: I start and I finish
He loves long nights, sing-songs and money but is deadly serious about his writing, his teaching and learning to live with his ‘demons’
Ireland’s mental hospitals: the last gap in our history of 'coercive confinement'?
As the inquiry into mother and baby homes begins, campaigners say it’s time to shine a light on psychiatric care
Ivor Browne: ‘When you give as much love as you can, you get it back 100-fold’
Nature will fight back by killing two-thirds of the world’s population, the education system creates conformists and giving love brings love, says ‘one of Ireland’s great liberators’, psychiatrist Ivor Browne, who at 84 finds himself surrounded by women
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