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A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.
I do most of the cooking. I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.
I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.
Look, you're either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist: there's no middle way. Everyone who supports the state of Israel is a Zionist.
One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard.
Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.
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... →
This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high... →
Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices... →
I do think culture is an argument, and that was part of the way I was brought up. People at a social occasion in Ireland will start shouting and... →
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... →
If you spend your life with academics, when you step outside, you realise there is this huge general readership that is almost impossible to reach... →
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... →
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