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A burnt-out case: the many lives of Dr Anthony Clare

23 January 2021

9:00 AM

23 January 2021

9:00 AM

Psychiatrist in the Chair: The Official Biography of Anthony Clare Brendan Kelly and Muiris Houston

Merrion Press, pp.292, 19.99

Those who best remember Dr Anthony Clare (1942-2007) for his broadcasting are firmly reminded by this biography that we didn’t know the half of him.

Its authors are Brendan Kelly, professor of psychiatry at Trinity College, Dublin and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry and Muiris Houston, a columnist for the Medical Independent and the Irish Times.

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