Maurice O'Connor Drury

Con Drury, probably photographed by Wittgenstein when he visited Dublin in 1936.

Maurice O'Connor Drury (3 July 1907 – 25 December 1976) was an Irish[1] psychiatrist, best known for his accounts of his conversations, and close friendship, with the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. [2]

  1. ^ "despite his English birth and education, his army record, as his request, gave his nationality as ‘Irish’." Hayes, J. "Con Drury: philosopher and psychiatrist." History of Psychiatry. 2017;28(4):p.393. doi:10.1177/0957154X17715413
  2. ^ Drury, M. O’C., Conversations with Wittgenstein, in R. Rhees (ed.), Recollections of Wittgenstein. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.97–171. Introduced (pp. 76–96) by Drury, M. O’C., Some Notes on Conversations with Wittgenstein.