Background
While he was still young, Paulin"s Northern Irish Protestant mother and English father moved from Leeds to Belfast and Paulin grew up in a middle class area of the city.
While he was still young, Paulin"s Northern Irish Protestant mother and English father moved from Leeds to Belfast and Paulin grew up in a middle class area of the city.
Paulin was educated at Annadale Grammar School, Hull University and Lincoln College, Oxford.
He lives in England, where he is the General Motors Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford.
According to Paulin, his parents, a doctor and headmaster, held "vaguely socialist liberal views". While still a teenager, Paulin joined the Trotskyist Socialist Labour League.