Tom Paulin Irish Quotations

'Ulysses' is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies near the foundations of the Irish Free State and of the Irish republic.

This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.

Because there is a sort of amorphous, sort of darkness at the heart of things, because there is a certain kind of complacency and individualism.