What made 1968 such an iconic year? What forces were in motion to erupt in the dramatic events of that year? What was it like to live through those times? What were the consequences of those events? What conclusions can we draw now about the meaning of those events? What reverberations can we still feel 50 years later? Helena Sheehan, active in 1968 and still going, addresses these questions.
Item Type:
Article (Published)
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No
Additional Information:
This text was adapted from an inaugural lecture for a series of events marking 1968 sponsored by University
of Limerick and City of Limerick. A longer version of this autobiographical history will appear in Navigating
the Zeitgeist to be published by Monthly Review Press later this year. (2018)
Uncontrolled Keywords:
1968; sixties zeitgeist; new left; feminism; Vietnam war; civil rights; utopian world view; folk music; popular culture