Tag: Ireland

Offering hope to the left (Until We Fall reviewed in ‘Morning Star’)

February 20, 2024

Already in the early 1980s if not before: “It was clear to most of us that socialism couldn’t survive without radical democratisation … it had to be based on consent.” Nevertheless, for Sheehan as for many of us on the left, the demise of the socialist bloc represented a defeat and the restoration of capitalism. It was “the most dramatic upheaval, politically and psychologically,” Sheehan says.

There’s a lot to tell: Irish Echo on Helena Sheehan’s “Navigating the Zeitgeist”

There’s a lot to tell: Irish Echo on Helena Sheehan’s “Navigating the Zeitgeist”

February 20, 2024

“We talked long into the night calling into question everything we had been brought up to believe….One night, it was all cozy and almost comfortable when I was in a pub with Billy and Seamus drinking, talking, and laughing for several hours. I would think back on it later with a strong sense of pathos, in light of what happened later, in light of how they both died. On that night, however, we were comrades and all seemed well,” says Helena Sheehan in a recent interview with The Irish Echo…

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