He spent three years there and afterwards wrote A history of the late revolution in Sweden (1778), which was well received and later translated into French.
[1] In 1776 Sheridan was elected to the Irish House of Commons as a Member of Parliament for Belturbet, largely owing to the patronage of his younger brother Richard.
[2] In 1782, Richard secured his brother a position in the Dublin Castle administration as Under-Secretary for Ireland for the military department in support of the Second Rockingham ministry.
He was removed from office on 8 August 1789 following the regency crisis, at which point he was granted an annual pension of £1000 by George III.
In 1793 Sheridan published two pamphlets; the first an essay defending Ireland's rights as an independent kingdom and the second a statement of support for catholic relief and Edmund Burke.