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Early Life and Family
June Levine (31st December 1931 - 14th October 2008) was a successful feminist, writer and Journalist who played a vital role in the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement. Levine was born into a Jewish-Catholic family. Her parents Charles Solomon Levine, the son of Jewish parents who fled from Latvia and Muriel Ruth McMahon from Co Clare secretly got married at a Catholic Church in Marlborough Street, Dublin at a young age. June, the eldest of five children, was baptised a Catholic and attended a Jewish school in Dublin. In 1947, the family decided to convert to Judaism

At the age of 15, Levine began her career in journalism for The Irish Times, however, love intervened when she met Canadian Jewish medical student, Kenneth Mesbur. In the 1950s, the married couple and their two children emigrated to Ontario, Canada, where they settled, and a third baby was born Unfortunately, things did not go as planned and June returned to Dublin with her three children and the marriage was over.

In 1965, Levine returned to her career in journalism and was elected assistant editor of the Irish Woman’s Journal. Levine became founder of the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement in 1970, hoping to address the control the Catholic Church had on Irish women’s sexuality

June was part of the “Contraceptive Train” to Belfast along with other feminists, to obtain contraceptives and illegally import them back to Dublin. June knew what it was like to be a single parent and was concerned for other victims in what she thought was a patriarchal society. June wrote two bestseller non-fiction books; Sisters (1982) a personal history of the Irish feminist movement and Lyn: a story of prostitution (1987)

In the late 1970s, June met psychiatrist Professor Ivor Browne and got married in 1999