Michael Joseph Quin (1796 – 19 February 1843) was an Irish author, traveller, journalist, and editor. Born in County Tipperary, he was the son of Morty Quin, a Catholic distiller from Thurles, and entered Trinity College Dublin in 1811 as a pensioner despite being Catholic, though there is no record that he graduated. He moved to London and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1818. While waiting for a law practice to develop he turned to journalism, becoming editor of the Monthly Review in 1825 and holding the post for seven years. He reported for the Morning Herald on his time in Spain from late 1822 to early 1823, work he later expanded into a book, and his travels through Hungary, Wallachia, Serbia, and Turkey produced A Steam Voyage down the Danube (1835), a success substantial enough to be translated into French and German. He is best known as the originator of the Dublin Review, the leading Catholic periodical in the British Isles of his era; papers of Cardinal Wiseman discovered around 1988 indicate that the Review was originally Quin's concept, with Quin as its nominal proprietor. He died on 19 February 1843.
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