Letters to the Editor: Fearless but gentle, Ivor Browne helped many people through turmoil

A number of correspondents celebrate the life of the late Ivor Browne, while others consider issues including sustainable agriculture, mental health, and the Middle East crisis
Letters to the Editor: Fearless but gentle, Ivor Browne helped many people through turmoil

Author and psychiatrist Ivor Brown taking part in a public interview with Eoin Nash, right, at CIT Cork School of Music in June 2016. Picture: Larry Cummins

Sat, 27 Jan, 2024 - 00:35

Fearless, yet gentle in disposition. Idiosyncratic, yet so generously accommodating. Creatively astute, yet all the while developing persuasive templates for human wellbeing in the round.

Prof Ivor Browne was a once-in-a-generation human being of supreme, yet underrated, worth to the nation — often marginalised and crassly ignored by many of his clinical peers.

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