Tom Paulin
Tom Paulin
Thomas Neilson Paulinis a Northern Irish poet and critic of film, music and literature. He lives in England, where he is the GM Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 January 1949
CountryIreland
classes education grim rigid school victorian
I went to a grim Victorian school with classes of 40 or 50 children. It was a very rigid and unimaginative education, but it did teach us the three Rs.
zionist
You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.
facts london submission
Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.
amnesia early forgot haunt history ironic rapidly recognise war
It's ironic that early on in the war with Afghanistan, the Americans and the British were saying, 'We recognise there must be a Palestinian state,' then they rapidly forgot about it. I think history will show that that kind of amnesia will come back to haunt you.
puritanism strongest
One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard.
ministers
Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.