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LMFM Late Lunch Listen BackLate Lunch Friday June 27th 2025Fertility expert Helena Tubridy and daughter Suzanne have come together on a new Podcast called "Fertility Finesse". Suzanne is now mum to two beautiful girls thanks to her mother Helena who told their story today. Grace Tierney loves fooling around with words, their origins and what they mean. In Gerry's book, Rick Cronje brought us two of his finest wines ever on today's show! David Sheehan previewed the weekend's sporting action, Neil Delamere provided the laughs and our TV Theme tested our audience like no other? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-06-271h 08
KPFA - Against the GrainSocialism to CapitalismWhat did the abrupt transition from socialism to capitalism in the former Soviet Bloc mean for residents, radicals, and the social order? Helena Sheehan, a Marxist thinker, educator, and activist, devotes a portion of her latest book to the impact and legacy of the momentous events of 1989 and 1990. (Encore presentation.)
Helena Sheehan, Until We Fall: Long Distance Life on the Left Monthly Review Press, 2023
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2024-10-0159 min
Reimagining Soviet GeorgiaEpisode 43: Life on the Left with Helena SheehanHelena Sheehan has spent decades involved in working class and Left struggles across the globe. She is an accomplished writer and academic who never lost or loses sight of her Marxist convictions. Her life brought her from America, as a devout Catholic entering the convent, to embracing revolutionary Marxism and participating in the Irish Republican struggle and the global communist movement. She also explains what it was like to visit the Soviet Union as a communist living in Ireland.
In this episode we discuss her life in the global left, the development of her...2024-09-271h 12
Irish Left Archive PodcastUntil We Fall: Long Distance Life on the Left, with Helena SheehanIn this episode we talk to Professor Helena Sheehan about her recent book, Until We Fall: Long Distance Life on the Left.
We discuss the lead up to and impact of the break up of the Soviet Union, Helena’s experience of post-apartheid South Africa and the changing role of the University in the contemporary period.
Helena is Emeritus Professor at Dublin City University (DCU) and has published and taught on culture, media, politics and philosophy. She has been active on the left in Ireland since the 1970s, with numerous campaigns and as a member, fi...2024-09-251h 21
KPFA - Against the GrainSocialism to CapitalismWhat did the abrupt transition from socialism to capitalism in the former Soviet Bloc mean for residents, radicals, and the social order? Helena Sheehan, a Marxist thinker, educator, and activist, devotes a portion of her latest book to the impact and legacy of the momentous events of 1989 and 1990.
Helena Sheehan, Until We Fall: Long Distance Life on the Left Monthly Review Press, 2023
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2024-04-3000 min
Irish in TorontoTeagascóirí ICUF 2023/24Clár i nGaeilge ina labhraím leis na teagascóirí ICUF (Ireland Canada University Foundation) don bhliain 2023/24: Clíodhna Ní Chorráin - University of Ottawa Gearóid Ó Treasaigh - St. Thomas' University, Fredericton, New Brunswick Helena Ní Rocháin - University of Alberta Cathal Ó Néill - Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador Emer Maguire - University of St. Michael's College, Toronto, Ontario2024-02-0935 min
Politics and LettersThomas Pynchon's California Novels: The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland and Inherent Vice'Good American writers know their job has something to do with interrogating the spiritual poverty of the nation'.
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Works Cited / Further Reading
Curtis, Adam. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. BBC, 2011.
Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Verso, 2018.
——. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. Verso, 2018.
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Out Of The Blank#1276 - Helena SheehanHelena Sheehan is an academic philosopher, historian of science, philosophy, culture and politics. Sheehan is Professor Emeritus at Dublin City University, where she taught media studies and history of ideas in the School of Communications. She was a visiting professor at the University of Cape Town on several occasions. She has been active on the left since the 1960s. As a philosopher and historian of science, Sheehan writes from a Marxist perspective. She argues that Marx and Engels shared fundamentally the same view on the philosophy of science. A Marxist humanist, Sheehan has written critically of Lysenkoism and Stalin's...2022-11-2559 min
Fiction That Forms Us: Stories that Inspire Us and Practices that Help Us ChangeMare of Easttown, Part 2 – The Spiritual Practice of Welcoming PrayerHow can welcoming the parts of us that aren’t like Jesus help us become more Christlike? Isn’t this a paradox? Find out on this episode, where author Helena Sorensen and host Kristy Lahoda discuss how to welcome what is part of us in the current moment and allow it to teach us. Join them as they discuss how Pennsylvania detective Mare Sheehan, in the HBO series Mare of Easttown written by Brad Ingelsby, learned to do this rather than bury it as she had done, allowing it to set up permanent residence.2022-11-1435 minFiction That Forms Us: Stories that Inspire Us and Practices that Help Us ChangeMare of Easttown, Part 1 – A Conversation about Mare SheehanWhat can we learn from a woman who reaches the limit of herself after compartmentalizing everything, believing she can and should take care of everyone since everyone expects her to be the hero? Find out on this episode, where author Helena Sorensen and host Kristy Lahoda discuss how the community depends on Pennsylvania detective Mare Sheehan, in the HBO series Mare of Easttown written by Brad Ingelsby, to solve a series of murders in the community and through it is forced to face her own buried grief.2022-10-3141 min
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Helena Sheehan on Marxism and the Scientific RevolutionThe COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us how badly we need to understand the links between science, politics, and commercial interests. For Marxists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these were some of the most important questions to be addressed in their work. The cross-fertilization between Marxism and science had major implications for the development of both. Helena Sheehan, emeritus professor at Dublin City University and the author of Marxism and the Philosophy of Science, joins the podcast to discuss the history of this encounter.Read Helena's article "John Desmond Bernal, Marxism, and the Scientific...2022-07-0239 min
Sherdog Podcast NetworkPFL 6: 2022 Preview | The Sheehan ShowSean Sheehan is back to preview Week 6 of the PFL 2022 regular season featuring welterweights and women's lightweights. This week's card is headlined by Kayla Harrison vs. Kaitlin Young.Timestamps:(00:00) Julia Budd injured and out of fight vs. Kayla Harrison(04:16) Kayla Harrison vs. Kaitlin Young(06:49) Fight card overview and why the points format makes PFL so unique(10:55) Rory MacDonald vs. Sadibou Sy(15:05) Ray Cooper III vs. Brett Cooper(17:54) Magomed Magomedkerimov vs. Joao Zeferino(19:59) Jarrah Al-Silawi vs. Magomed Umalatov2022-06-2828 min
The ProgressiveMarxism and the Philosophy of Science with Helena Sheehan Podcast: Cosmopod (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Marxism and the Philosophy of Science with Helena SheehanPub date: 2022-05-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDjamil and Donald join Helena Sheehan, author of Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History for a deep dive on the interactions between these two fields. They start off with Sheehan’s intellectual history, before discussing what Marxism is and how it relates to other philosophies of science. They talk about Marx & Engels’ relationship to science, in part...2022-05-171h 32
CosmopodMarxism and the Philosophy of Science with Helena SheehanDjamil and Donald join Helena Sheehan, author of Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History for a deep dive on the interactions between these two fields. They start off with Sheehan’s intellectual history, before discussing what Marxism is and how it relates to other philosophies of science. They talk about Marx & Engels’ relationship to science, in particular to Darwinism, Engels’ much maligned Dialectics of Nature, its relationship to Hegel, and the laws of dialectics. They continue with the Austromarxists and Neokantianism, its influence on Bogdanov and the Bolshevik Machists, and Lenin’s reply in Materialism and Empirio...2022-05-051h 32
Sherdog Podcast NetworkThe Sheehan Show #91: PFL 3: 2022 Regular Season - Preview / BreakdownSean Sheehan previews PFL 3: 2022 REGULAR SEASON, headlined by Kayla Harrison vs. Marina Mokhnatkina and also featuring Anthony Pettis, Rory MacDonald, and Ray Cooper III.No matter what your favorite sport is or how you like to wager, find out why there’s nothing like getting a W at The King of Sportsbooks. Use code SHERDOG and make your first bet risk-free, up to one thousand dollars — download the Bet MGM app and sign up today!► Use code: SHERDOGhttps://BetMGM.com(00:00) Thoughts on PFL...2022-05-0228 min
KPFA - Against the GrainRadical Thinker, Radical TimesHelena Sheehan participated, as an activist, educator, and Marxist philosopher, in a great variety of radical movements and groupings, among them the New Left, the IRA, and the Communist Party of Ireland. She describes her engagements with many of the key ideas and debates around socialism and communism, both in the U.S. and abroad. (Encore presentation.)
Helena Sheehan, Navigating the Zeitgeist: A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and International Communism Monthly Review Press, 2019
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2021-11-0159 min
Kevin Boyle PodcastProfessor Helena Sheehan - Life as a nun, becoming an atheist & championing Marxism.Helena Sheehan is an academic philosopher, historian of science, and writer on communication studies, politics, and philosophical (particularly Marxist) subjects. Sheehan is a retired (Professor Emeritus) communications lecturer at Dublin City University and has been a visiting professor at the University of Cape Town. She is the author of five books.-----------------------------------------------------Move & meditate with me:https://kevinboyleyoga.ie/membership-----------------------------------------------------2020-10-0257 min
Red Library: A Political Education Podcast for Today's LeftKarl Marx's Ecosocialism w. CosmopodPart of Red Library's Lost Futures Series Comrade Adam (a.k.a. Chairman Bane) joins podrades Remi and Niko from Cosmonaut's brilliant Ecology Cast series to discuss Kohei Saito's Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy: Karl Marx's Ecosocialism from Monthly Review Press in 2017. We discuss the concept of metabolism, Marx's evolution of thought on ecology being the core realm of capitalist crisis, agricultural chemistry, the role of a Marxist ecosocialist perspective to stop the destruction of capital across the planet, and much more! Further Reading/References Kohei Saito Interview...2020-09-131h 57
KPFA - Against the GrainRadical Thinker, Radical TimesHelena Sheehan participated, as an activist, educator, and Marxist philosopher, in a great variety of radical movements and groupings, among them the New Left, the IRA, and the Communist Party of Ireland. She describes her engagements with many of the key ideas and debates around socialism and communism, both in the U.S. and abroad.
Helena Sheehan, Navigating the Zeitgeist: A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and International Communism Monthly Review Press, 2019
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2020-07-2222 min
KPFA - Against the GrainA Look BackHighlights of some of the best commentary presented on Against the Grain in 2019, featuring Max Haiven on revenge in a capitalist context; Helena Sheehan on European and Soviet communism; Manu Samnotra on civilization and political resistance according to Gandhi; Michael Burawoy on Pierre Bourdieu and Karl Marx; and Margaret Hunter on what she calls “shape shifting into Blackness.”
Full interviews with Max Haiven, Helena Sheehan, Manu Samnotra, Michael Burawoy, and Margaret Hunter
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2020-01-0718 min
KPFA - Against the GrainRadical Thinker, Radical TimesHelena Sheehan participated, as an activist, educator, and Marxist philosopher, in a great variety of radical movements and groupings, among them the New Left, the IRA, and the Communist Party of Ireland. She describes her engagements with many of the key ideas and debates around socialism and communism, both in the U.S. and abroad.
Helena Sheehan, Navigating the Zeitgeist: A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and International Communism Monthly Review Press, 2019
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2019-07-1059 min
TRASHFUTURERiley's Commie Book Club - Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical HistoryAs of next month, all episodes of Commie Book Club will be published on on our Patreon feed... BUT without any paywall in front of them at all. So they'll be free each month with no delay.
If you nonetheless want to support us anyway and get next month's book club early, check out www.patreon.com/trashfuture/
Another instalment of Riley's Commie Book Club delivered to you, our delightful and beloved patrons. This month, Riley decided to take it in a bit of a different direction, and talk about an under-discussed field of study, M...2019-06-271h 04
TRASHFUTURERiley's Commie Book Club - Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical HistoryAs of next month, all episodes of Commie Book Club will be published on on our Patreon feed... BUT without any paywall in front of them at all. So they'll be free each month with no delay.
If you nonetheless want to support us anyway and get next month's book club early, check out www.patreon.com/trashfuture/
Another instalment of Riley's Commie Book Club delivered to you, our delightful and beloved patrons. This month, Riley decided to take it in a bit of a different direction, and talk about an under-discussed field of study, M...2019-06-271h 04
Amandla! MediaClass, Race, Gender and Knowledge with Helena Sheehan by Amandla!MediaHow do class, race and gender impact on the production of knowledge? Is it enough to include those who have been excluded from advanced knowledge? Or has knowledge itself been tainted by the exclusions of class, race, gender and colonial conquest? How to proceed with such realisations? How do we decolonise our minds and our universities? Should we repudiate existing knowledge and start again at zero? Or should we return to the indigenous knowledge of our ancestors? Or should we engage in a radical and critical transformation? How has Rhodes Must Fall dramatised these dilemmas? What does Marxism have...2019-03-111h 27
From Alpha To Omega#083 Dialectical MaterialismThis week we talk again to Professor Helena Sheehan about her book ‘Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History’. Verso books have just released a new edition, as part of their Radical Thinkers series.You can find the book here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2565-marxism-and-the-philosophy-of-scienceYou can also find my new patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/FromAlpha2Omega2018-02-1155 min
From Alpha To Omega#081 The Syriza WaveThe podcast is back on track after an extended break, with many new shows lined up and raring to go. This week I am delighted to welcome Professor Helena Sheehan to the show to discuss her most recent book ‘The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left’. She is a professor emeritus at Dublin City University, and the author of many books included 'Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History'.The music on this show was:‘The Order of the Pharaonic Jesters’ by Sun Ra and his Arkestra'Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major...2017-12-1045 min
Laura Flanders and Friends: Positive Independent Journalism for a Just WorldCan The European left save itself?This week, from the promises of Syriza in Greece to the demands of Brexit in the U.K: how two landmark events in Europe help to forecast the direction of its left. Helena Sheehan is the author of new book, "The Syriza Wave," chronicling what she calls the failure of Greece's radical left to deliver on its campaign. She's joined by Natalie, co founder of Matters of the Earth and organizer with Black Lives Matter UK. Ahead of the British general election, both guests gauge the temperature of a continental Left that could move away from austerity, incarceration, and...2017-06-0728 min
Best Possible Taste with Sharon Noonan28 July 2015Nourish by Nature’s Sid Sheehan has advice on foods to fight arthritis and shares some great recipes.
Bord Bia’s Eimear O Donnell has news about the cheese farm visits initiative.
Simon Tyrell, Craigie’s Cider talks about vintage craft cider.
Helena Morgan from Temple St Children’s University Hospital reveals details about the Dublin Cookbook that is raising much needed funds for the hospital.2015-07-2953 min
The Irish TimesHelena Sheehan on Marxism at ChristmasHelena Sheehan on Marxism at Christmas by The Irish Times Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2013-12-1909 min
Science ChatScience Chat - Episode 2: Creation in the USScience Chat looks at the controversy surrounding the Darwin film in the US with contribution from Prof. Helena Sheehan, DCU.2009-09-2715 min