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Fionnula Flanagan Remembers Husband Garrett O’Connor, Addiction Treatment Pioneer


By Fionnula Flanagan
January, 2016

January 19, 2016 by Leave a Comment

I met him in 1969. In the corridor of the Round Towner Motel in Baltimore. Maryland. Following a Broadway run, I was on a national tour with Lovers, the play that had brought me to the US. He was an Irish psychiatrist running the Psychiatric Emergency Clinic on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. But when I first saw him, having opened my motel room door to … [Read more...] about Fionnula Flanagan Remembers Husband Garrett O’Connor, Addiction Treatment Pioneer

Those We Lost

By Irish America Staff
October / November 2015

October 1, 2015 by Leave a Comment

Jerry Berrigan 1919 – 2015 Jerry Berrigan, the legendary Catholic educator and political activist, passed away this past July at 95. Alongside his brothers Philip and Daniel, both priests, he helped implement national strikes against American involvement in Vietnam and in 1973 was arrested for holding a prayer protest against the U.S. bombing of Cambodia. Further arrests … [Read more...] about Those We Lost

Remembering Dr. Garrett O’Connor, an Addiction Treatment Pioneer

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
September 11, 2015

September 11, 2015 by 8 Comments

The renowned physician and psychiatrist Dr. Garrett O’Connor, lauded for his work on addiction treatment and the founding president of the Betty Ford Institute for Prevention, Research and Education in Addictive Disease, died early September at his home in Aughrim, Co. Wicklow. Dr. O’Connor was born in Dublin and graduated as a physician from the Royal College of Surgeons and … [Read more...] about Remembering Dr. Garrett O’Connor, an Addiction Treatment Pioneer

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