Tom Paulin
Thomas Neilson Paulin (born 25 January 1949) is a Northern Irish poet and critic of film, music and literature. He lives in England, where he was the G. M. Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford.
Early life
Paulin was born in
Paulin was educated at
Work
From 1972 to 1994, he worked at the
Paulin is considered to be among a group of writers from a Unionist background "who have attempted to recover the radical Protestant republican heritage of the eighteenth century to challenge orthodox concepts" of Northern Irish Protestant identity.[2] His passionate arguments and desire for a political poetry hails from the influence of John Milton, according to critic Jonathan Hufstader, though his outrage "often consumes itself in congested anger".[3]
Paulin is most widely known in Britain for his appearances on the late-night
Following the success of the Field Day Theatre Company's tour of Brian Friel's play Translations in late 1980, the two founding directors (Friel and Stephen Rea) decided to make Field Day a permanent enterprise. Thus, to qualify for financial support from both the Northern Irish and the Irish governments, they expanded the governing board from the original two members to six: Friel, Rea, Paulin, Seamus Deane, Seamus Heaney and David Hammond.
Paulin was a member of the
References
- ^ a b "Profile: Tom Paulin", The Guardian, 23 March 2002
- ISBN 0-521-65732-6.
- ISBN 9780813131139.
- ^ a b 'That weasel word' Al-Ahram Weekly Online, 4–10 April 2002
- ^ Paulin, Tom (18 February 2001). "Killed in Crossfire". The Guardian. The Observer. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
We're fed this inert // this lying phrase // like comfort food // as another little Palestinian boy // in trainers jeans and a white teeshirt // is gunned down by the Zionist SS // whose initials we should // - but we don't - dumb goys - // clock in that weasel word crossfire
- ^ Denis, MacShane (2008). Globalising Hatred: The New Antisemitism'. Orion Publishing Group.
- ^ "Paulin Likely To Speak in Spring". Harvard Crimson.
- ^ "Tom Paulin – complete guide to the Playwright, Plays, Theatres, Agent" doollee.com – The Playwrights Database
External links
- Tom Paulin: Poetic polemicist BBC News, 15 November 2002 – Profile
- British Council profile
- Archival Material at Leeds University Library
- Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Tom Paulin papers, 1969-2008