Belfast poet, Sinéad Morrisey, was brought up in a Communist family. Hers was a childhood lived in the little world created by the party, a world apart from others and from the Troubles.  

It involved smoke-filled rooms, endless meetings, and dreams of a future utopia – coupled with a belief that east of the Iron Curtain, there were people already living in it.   

The fall of Communism in the eastern block was more than an historical event for her family – it was the end of a dream and of a way of life.  

Sinéad Morrisey’s new memoir is called ‘Among Communists’. 

She joined Ciarán Dunbar to explain the book and her story. 

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