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June Levine's Later Life and Death
In Levine’s later work, she produced two best-selling nonfiction books. She acknowledged having had an abortion in England in 1967 in the Irish feminist movement's personal history, Sisters, (1982). In 1987, Levine wrote a longer, book-length version of an article she wrote for Magill magazine, called Lyn: a story of prostitution. Levine supported Lyn Madden, an ex-prostitute’s courageous steps into testifying against Dublin pimp, John Cullen, who set fire to Lyn’s friend’s home, killing her friend, Dolores Lynch, Lynch’s mother, Kathleen and her aunt, Hannah Hearne. This book detailed Lyn Madden’s victimisation and other women in Dublin’s criminal underworld (Tiernan, 2014).

In Levine’s later life, she became interested in India's women's movement. She only wrote one piece of fiction, A Season of Weddings, which was published in 1992 and told the tale of a Dublin woman who went to New Delhi for a Jewish wedding. Levine edited the chapter titled "The women's movement in the Republic of Ireland, 1968–80" in volume five of The Field Day anthology of Irish writing: Irish women's writing and traditions, which was released in 2002. This is a testament to the high regard in which she was held within the Irish feminist movement (Donovan, 1994).

June had many strokes in her last year, which impacted her speech. She bravely battled to restore her communication skills and appeared to get better. She experienced a second stroke in the first week of October, lost consciousness, and passed away quietly on October 14th, 2008 in the early morning hours, in Tallaght Hospital. She left behind her three children as well as her husband, Professor Ivor Browne, who Levine met shortly after his separation in the 1960’s. The next year, Attic Press reissued her book Sisters with a preface written by Levine's friend Nell McCafferty (Kenny, 2008).