Too many people with mental health issues end up in prison
Our fellow human beings deserve better in a modern, wealthy European country
Prof Ivor Browne
Irish psychiatrist
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
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
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