Author name: P. O'Brien

P. O'Brien is an author and historian who has written about Thomas Paine, notably in works discussing Paine's political ideas and legacy. One of the works associated with P. O'Brien in the context of Thomas Paine is a book that examines the debates surrounding the French Revolution and the Rights of Man. O'Brien also offered a revisionist perspective on Thomas Jefferson, a contemporary and acquaintance of Paine, by examining his views on slavery and the French Revolution in a book titled "The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800".

“A mock escutcheon for a united, British republican college of health practitioners” is a 1798 etching. The shield is supported by House of Lords radical Francis Russell and Thomas Paine wearing the Bonnet-rouge, a symbol of the French Revolution. Paine says: “So much for Ducal patriotism”. Beside the Duke are two books: ‘Age of Reason’ and ‘Sporting Cal[endar’; beside Paine, ‘Rights of Man’ and ‘Rights of Surgeons’ – Wellcome Collection

Thomas Paine And The Age Of Reason

P. O'Brien / January 1, 2001

Thomas Paine Society undoubtedly has members who cherish his Age of Reason, their undoubted right, but can they deny that it has damaged Rights of Man for many others? A sad out- come for such an outstanding social reformer, and his work.

Methodists, Quakers, Thomas Paine and Religion, Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason

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Rights Of Man Centenary And The Pope

P. O'Brien / January 1, 2000

Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 2000 Number 1 Volume 5

I have gone back to Rights of Man and compared it carefully with The Workers Charter. I would find it hard to believe that this new work, coming on the centenary of Paine’s, was merely coincidence and of no further significance.

Edmund Burke, Methodists, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man

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