World mourns Dubliners' Ronnie Drew, 'King of Ireland'

When the Pogues� Shane MacGowan sings your praises, you know you�re influential.

Ronnie Drew surely was.

The leader of the Irish folk group the Dubliners died at age 73 Saturday after a lengthy bout with cancer.

Famed for a voice described as sounding like coal being crushed under a door, Drew�s booming vocals and bushy beard - along with those of his associate Dubliners isthmus mates - became the image well-nigh associated with the revitalization of Irish folk in the �60s and �70s. The answer to the Clancy Brothers� bouncy melodies and neat Aran fisherman sweaters, the Dubliners grew out of Guinness-soaked backroom sessions at O�Donoghue�s Pub in their namesake city.

Throughout his prolonged career Drew accompanied himself on Spanish guitar, spell sharing vocal duties in the Dubliners� classic lineup with the late Luke Kelly. Kelly provided the balladeer�s touch, while Drew�s voice set the groundwork for the group�s livelier selections.

With his gruff, pebbly tone, he delivered definitive versions of such Irish folk tunes as �Finnegan�s Wake,� �McAlpine�s Fusiliers� and �Seven Drunken Nights.�

Drew was beginning to suffer from health issues when his wife of 40 geezerhood, Deirdre, died last June. After organism diagnosed with throat genus Cancer, his health steadily declined.

An all-star gathering of Irish musicians, including surviving members of the Dubliners, members of U2, Sinead O�Connor,Oscar winner Glen Hansard, Bob Geldof, Christy Moore, MacGowan and a handful of others wrote and recorded �The Ballad of Ronnie Drew� in January. The song, which paid tribute to Drew�s influence on Irish music and culture, topped the Irish singles charts and proceeds benefitted the Irish Cancer Society.

�Build you a statue on St. Stephen�s Green, no fairer monument ere to be seen,� went the lyrics, �the statue of Ronnie Drew retention the hand of a girl with her hair in a black velvet band.�

The song borrowed a chorus from Drew�s 1978 recording �Easy and Slow,� this time interpreted by Hansard and MacGowan.

Drew lately recorded with Boston punk-rockers the Dropkick Murphys, loaning his see and snarling baritone to �Flannigan�s Ball� from the band�s �The Meanest of Times� CD.

The Dubliners originally started out as the Ronnie Drew Group in 1962 with Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna and Ciaran Bourke. John Sheahan and Bobby Lynch joined a short time later and, at Drew�s urging, the group changed its discover to the Dubliners. He was a member of the Dubliners from 1962 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1995.

Drew - labeled �The King of Ireland� by Bono and posthumously referred to as �the last of the Irish rovers� - was laid to rest side by side to his late wife after a two-day wake in County Wicklow.

The Ballad of Ronnie Drew

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Post-Partum Suicide Attempt Risks Studied

� Although maternal felo-de-se after giving birth is a comparatively rare occurrence, suicide attempts often stimulate long-lasting personal effects on the family and the babe. In a study published in the August 2008 issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, researchers compared two populations of mothers and found that a chronicle of psychiatric disorders or substance ill-use was a strong predictor of postnatal suicide attempts.


Using the hospitalization and birth records from Washington State, USA, from 1992 to 2001, the researchers found that 335 women had been hospitalized for suicide attempts. Another 1420 women wHO had disposed birth only had not been hospitalized for a suicide try served as a control group.


After adjusting for fetal or infant death and former variables, women who had been antecedently hospitalized for psychiatric disorders were more than 27 times as likely to attempt suicide as women without this medical chronicle. Women with a history of kernel abuse were six multiplication as potential to attempt suicide, while psychiatric hospitalization and substance abuse together increased the risk by 11 times.


Writing in the article, Katherine A. Comtois, PhD, lead tec from the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center and the University of Washington School of Medicine, states, "In the current study, we focused on preexisting psychiatric risk factors for postpartum suicide attempts resulting in hospitalization. Most importantly, a prior psychiatrical or substance use diagnosis among postpartum women significantly increased the risk of a serious postpartum self-destruction attempt. One implication of this study is that screening for past story of psychiatric and substance use diagnoses as part of number prenatal maintenance may be a means of identifying women at high risk of postnatal suicide attack, although a recent recapitulation of antenatal screening for depression cited insufficient evidence to recommend screening as a means to meliorate outcomes."


A recent passport from The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists suggested covering for psychosocial risk factors, including depression during prenatal care. This article emphasizes the want for more careful followup of postpartum women with current or past psychiatric diagnoses or substance employment. The authors continue, "Future studies should evaluate the effectiveness of screening for psychiatric and substance purpose disorders on decreasing untoward outcomes such as self-annihilation attempts during the postnatal period. If found to be effective, such interventions may keep the withering impact associated with postnatal suicide effort."

"Psychiatric risk factors associated with postpartum suicide attack in Washington State, 1992-2001"

Katherine A. Comtois, PhD; Melissa A. Schiff, MD, MPH; and David C. Grossman, MD, MPH.
American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Volume 199, Issue 2 (August 2008).
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This work was supported by a grant from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

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