Day: May 17, 2023

Today, Tom talks with Fin Dwyer on Irish History Podcast about the Anti Slavery Belfast tour.Listen here: https://spoti.fi/3pNGjBd Tours start at 10.30 at the Big Fish. Booking information: https://bit.ly/3wgNhhQ

Thomas Paine was an influential 18th-century writer and philosopher, best known for his political writings advocating for the American Revolution and the rights of man. Paine was born in England in 1737 and emigrated to the American colonies in 1774, where he wrote his most famous work, “Common Sense,” a political pamphlet that played a major role in the American Revolution. In 1791, Paine published “Rights of Man,” a response to Edmund Burke’s critique of the French Revolution. In this work, Paine argued for the rights of man and the…