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
answer exist fiction robust terms writer
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short and robust answer is, 'Certainly not.'
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.
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Unfortunately, in the north and the south of Ireland, intolerant habits are part of the fabric of emotion, part of the identity crisis which afflicts the population of the country.
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I am not very moved by historical apologies.
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Didn't I seize the fire of ideas and make them leap, tear, fly, sing
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I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.
zionist
You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.
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In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.
country thinking people
I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.
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I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.
israel
I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.
thinking historical consciousness
I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.
israel support zionist
Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist.
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Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.