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Ireland’s Independent Left reviews Helena Sheehan’s “Navigating the Zeitgeist”

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Navigating the Zeitgeist: A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and International Communism
308pp, $25 pbk, ISBN 978-1-58367-727-8
By Helena Sheehan

Reviewed by Conor Kostick

Everyone goes through a crisis of belief at some point in their lives. We grow up with certain views of the world presented to us and when they don’t fit experience, have to revise or abandon them. This process can be incredibly painful and in the case of Helena Sheehan, it’s hard to imagine a more total collapse and rebuilding than her journey from nun to communist. Her autobiography, therefore, is an important book, not just for documenting her times and the very interesting circles she moved in but in allowing the reader to explore in some depth a crucial question for us all: how do I know my current belief system is right?

Read the review at Independent Left

Navigating the Zeitgeist

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