Author name: Sean Cronin

Sean Cronin is a lecturer at the New School for Social Science, New York and Washington correspondent for the Irish Times, Dublin. He was also a Vice-President and editor of the Thomas Paine Society, UK.

In Behalf Of An An Honest Man

Sean Cronin / January 1, 1980

Many Americans are ambivalent about Thomas Paine, the 18th century British-American author and propagandist, for all kinds of reasons; he’s too radical in a modern way, perhaps. Paul O’Dwyer is not one of them.

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One of the inscribed flagstones on the steps leading to the grave of Theobald Wolfe Tone - link

Thomas Paine And The United Irishmen

Sean Cronin / January 1, 1980

Paine’s Rights of Man was “the Koran” of Belfast, Theobald Wolfe Tone learned in October 1791 when he went north from Dublin to found the first Society of United Irishmen. Edmund Burke, an Irishman, lost the loyalty of his radical countrymen to Paine.

Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and Ireland, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man

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