Talk:Richard Brinsley Sheridan

message: Should he be described as "Irish"?  He went to Harrow and lived in England for most of his life.  His plays were produced in London, and his political career was in London, not in Dublin. john k 17:21, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: He was born in Ireland. What better criteria is there, for what someone is, than their place of birth? AlwynJPie (talk) 10:16, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  'criterion'. "Criteria" is the plural. 2001:44B8:3102:BB00:DC7A:13A6:49E0:99D6 (talk) 19:43, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Irish?

message: Does anybody know the background to this Sheridan quote: 'Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair’s breadth upon the liberties of England.' House of Commons speech, 6 February 1810. According to this- http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRsheridan.htm - Sheridan opposed the Act of Union between Britain and Ireland.
:Sheridan was a champion of press freedom, have a look at http://www.louthonline.com/html/fitzgerald.html. Arniep 02:05, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Background to this quote

message: We currently say that in Gaelic his surname would be spelt "Cheridennne" - is that correct, or a typo? --Thoughtcat 13:25, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Three n's in a row? 

message: Several months ago I looked up R B Sheridan on Wikipedia and discovered a very lengthy and rich article that discussed among other topics the details of his politics and the shifting relationships he had with other politicians, his specific positions on various issues, the details of his elopement, details about his plays and poems, his management of Drury Lane, finances, the comments of his contemporaries about his works and his politics (Byron's famous remark), reference to his great but unrecorded speech re the corn laws/reform in parliment (I think that was the topic) etc. etc.  A great article. Again very rich. And from my studies of RBS some years ago it seemed both comprehensive and accurate. Now, this very thin cursory page. What happened? Where is that earlier article? Is something going on with wikipedia that would lead to this dumbing down?--RDCocks (talk) 18:26, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have checked the article's history, and I don't see any significant amounts of evidence of material being removed in the last year. The last version of 2006 looks much the same as the current version, and I don't see any major deletions inbetween. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:03, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What happened to this article? 

message: I just wanted to note, that the incidental music for Pizarro is not by Dussek, but by Michael Kelly.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.180.27.243 (talk) 18:19, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Music for Pizarro 

message: : In Ireland, Sheridan is obviously the most common anglicisation of the Irish name Ó Sirideáin (http://www.libraryireland.com/names/os/o-sirideain.php), which is most common in Cavan, Meath and Westmeath/Longford. What is Sheridan's familial connection to the Gaelic world? Where were they from originally and when did the family become Protestant? 89.101.41.216 (talk) 02:22, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: How does this improve the article (see header at the top of this page)? Wikipedia is not a genealogical site. Hohenloh  +   11:20, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  It gives a very important part of his family background. 89.101.41.216 (talk) 10:19, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Sheridan surname

message: In case anyone is interested: I've requested here that the current Sheridan page be moved to Sheridan (disambiguation) in order to allow Sheridan to become a redirect to this article, to my mind indisputably the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:27, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Why would your mind go that way?  Did you not even look at the disambig page and the other articles linked there?  Dicklyon (talk) 05:02, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move request 

message: Two of the images have extensive captions which should be placed in the main body of the article with the images as support.
I'll attempt to do that but may revert to the original layout if it doesn't work out. The aesthetics of this article needs to be balanced and I'm not too sure that is achievable with the extensive caption text.
Feel free to revert my edits if you disagree. 
thanks
Sluffs (talk) 16:33, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caption text (extensive) should be placed in the article