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Life and Work

While he was still young, Paulin's Northern Irish Protestant mother and English father moved from Leeds to Belfast and Paulin grew up at the middle class end of Belfast's Ormeau Road, an area of sectarian tension. According to Paulin, his parents, a doctor and headmaster, held "vaguely socialist liberal views". Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... Belfast (Béal Feirste in Irish) is a city in the United Kingdom. ... The middle class (or middle classes) comprises a social group once defined by exception as an intermediate social class between the nobility and the peasantry. ... Sectarianism is an adherence to a particular sect or party or denomination, it also usually involves a rejection of those not a member of ones sect. ...

Paulin was educated at Hull University and Lincoln College, Oxford. From 1972 to 1994 he worked at the University of Nottingham, first as a lecturer and then as a Reader of Poetry. In 1977 he won the Somerset Maugham prize for his poetry collection A State of Justice and later established his reputation as a literary critic with work such as Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation State (1992). Recently he has championed the work of literary and social critic William Hazlitt and has taken part in a successful campaign to have Hazlitt's gravestone refurbished. The University of Hull, also known as Hull University, is an English university in East Yorkshire which was founded in 1927. ... College name Lincoln College Named after Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln Established 1427 Sister College Downing College Rector Prof. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... The University of Nottingham is a leading research and teaching university in the city of Nottingham, in the East Midlands of England. ... Lecturer is the name given to university teachers in most of the English-speaking world (but not at most universities in the US or Canada) who do not hold a professorship. ... In the United Kingdom academic hierarchy, reader is the rank between senior lecturer (or principal lecturer in the New Universities) and professor. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... W. Somerset Maugham as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten. ... Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... A cultural critic is a critic of a given culture, usually as a whole and typically on a radical basis; a social critic of a given society, but the overlap is large. ... William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, often esteemed the greatest English literary critic after Samuel Johnson. ... Headstones in the Japanese Cemetry in Broome, Western Australia A cemetery in rural Spain A typical late 20th century headstone in the United States A headstone, tombstone or gravestone is a marker, normally carved from stone, placed over or next to the site of a burial. ...

Paulin is most widely-known in Britain for his appearances on the late-night BBC arts programmes Late Review and Newsnight Review, where he has established a reputation not only for his acerbic judgements but also for the unusual quality of some of his language (for instance, he once described the sound of Blur's 13 album as "like barbed wire at the bottom of a pond"). He is also not averse to becoming involved in bad-tempered arguments with other regular guests such as Germaine Greer. Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national public service broadcaster of the United Kingdom (see British television). ... Blur is the name of a British rock band. ... 13 is the sixth album by British rock band Blur, first released in 1999. ... Modern barbed wire Barbed wire is a type of fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strand(s). ... Dr. Germaine Greer Germaine Greer (born January 29, 1939) is an Australian academic, writer, and broadcaster, who is widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the 20th century. ...

In 1980, together with Brian Friel, Stephen Rea, Seamus Heaney and Seamus Deane, Paulin co-founded the Field Day Theatre Company. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Brian Friel (born January 9, 1929), a Catholic teachers son, was born in Omagh, County Tyrone (Northern Ireland). ... Stephen Rea Stephen Rea (born October 31, 1946) is an Irish actor with an extensive stage and film career, both in Ireland and abroad. ... Seamus Justin Heaney (b. ... Born to a Catholic nationalist family in Londonderry, Northern Ireland in 1940, Seamus Deane is a poet, critic and novelist. ... // The Field Day Theater Company The Field Day Theater Company began as an artistic collaboration between playwright Brian Friel and actor Stephen Rea. ...

Accusations of anti-Semitism

In 2002 Paulin attracted controversy following an interview he gave to the Egyptian state-controlled newspaper Al-Ahram Weekly. The interview gave the impression that he believed suicide bombings to be wrong not because innocent people are killed but because "...attacks on civilians in fact boost morale... Hitler [tried to bomb] London into submission but in fact created a sense of national solidarity". Most controversially, he is reported to have said of Brooklyn-born Jewish settlers that "They should be shot dead. I think they are Nazis, racists; I feel nothing but hatred for them." [1]. This resulted in the cancellation and subsequent reinstatement of his invitation to deliver the prestigious Morris Gray Lecture at Harvard University. The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Al-Ahram, founded in 1875, is the oldest daily newspaper in the Arab world. ... A suicide bombing is an attack using a bomb in which the individual(s) carrying the explosive materials composing the bomb intend(s) and expect(s) to die upon detonation (see suicide). ... A civilian is a person who is not a member of a military. ... Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ... Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the most populous city in the European Union, with an estimated population on 1 January 2005 of 7. ... Solidarity in sociology refers to the feeling or condition of unity based on common goals, interests, and sympathies among a groups members. ... A map highlighting Brooklyn and the rest of New York City. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... A family of Russian settlers in the Caucasus region, ca. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Nazism. ... 1. ... Morris Abraham Gray (May 16, 1889-February 1966) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ...

Bibliography

• Theoretical Locations (Ulsterman Publications, 1975)
• Thomas Hardy: The Poetry of Perception (Macmillian, 1975)
• A State of Justice (Faber and Faber, 1977)
• Personal Column (Ulsterman Publications, 1978
• The Strange Museum (Faber and Faber, 1980)
• The Book of Juniper (Bloodaxe Books, 1981)
• A New Look at the Language Question (Field Day, 1983)
• Liberty Tree (Faber and Faber, 1983)
• Ireland and the English Crisis (Bloodaxe Books, 1984)
• The Argument at Great Tew: A Poem (Willbrook Press, 1985)
• The Riot Act: A Version of Sophocles' "Antigone" (Faber and Faber, 1985)
• The Faber Book of Political Verse (editor) (Faber and Faber, 1986)
• Fivemiletown (Faber and Faber, 1987)
• The Hillsborough Script: A Dramatic Satire (Faber and Faber, 1987)
• Seize the Fire: A Version of Aeschylus' "Prometheus Bound" (Faber and Faber, 1990)
• The Faber Book of Vernacular Poetry (editor) (Faber and Faber, 1990)
• Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation State (Faber and Faber, 1992)
• Selected Poems 1972-1990 (Faber and Faber, 1993)
• Walking a Line (Faber and Faber, 1994)
• Writing to the Moment: Selected Critical Essays 1980-1996 (Faber and Faber, 1996)
• The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style (Faber and Faber, 1998)
• The Wind Dog (Faber and Faber, 1999)
• The Fight and Other Writings by William Hazlitt (co-edited with David Chandler) (Penguin, 2000)
• Thomas Hardy: Poems selected by Tom Paulin (editor) (Faber and Faber, 2001)
• The Invasion Handbook (Faber and Faber, 2002)
• D. H. Lawrence and "Difference": The Poetry of the Present (co-authored with with Amit Chaudhuri) (Oxford University Press, 2003)
• The Road to Inver (Faber and Faber, 2004)
• Crusoe's Secret: The Aesthetics of Dissent (Faber, 2005)

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