not to belittle his achievemnets as a psychiatrist, but this being Mudcat, I am singling out the musical details re Ivor Browne and family. From the obit linked to above, in Peter Laban's post "It was his love of music, in this case Irish traditional music, that brought him to his late wife Orla Kiernan, daughter of folk singer Delia Murphy." another article has similar information re Orla Kiernan and describes Ivor Browne's father playing the mandolin at home www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/in-praise-of-ivor-browne-groundbreaker-lifesaver-1.2924489 Remembrance by Dennis Bradley, founder of Northlands Addiction Treatment Centre in Derry https://www.irishnews.com/opinion/we-are-living-in-a-society-that-is-driving-people-mad-IE3ODL3MVRF7PN2DEYBUV4HKYE/ "There is a lovely letter in one of the papers of a patient who had not spoken for several days on entering hospital. Ivor sat on the man’s bed, pulled out his beloved tin whistle and played until the man began to smile and then speak. Which put me in mind of an occasion he and I were asked to leave a pub when he started to play the same tin whistle. The owner was not too keen on us trad people who, he claimed, attracted a rough crowd."
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