The Irish spoofer who was Churchill. As such, and as the founding father of a newspaper empire that includes the Financial Times and the Economist, the only London papers that boast worldwide readership, he wielded immense influence. However, he renounced the Catholic faith of his ancestors and played down, sometimes to the point of denial, his Irish background. The reaction that this evoked in the Ireland of his day was well expressed by a snubbed acquaintance, who remarked sourly that he was like a Jew in Hitler. He was, in short, an unmentionable. Brendan was only three when his father died in 1. Dublin. He was a delinquent if engaging child.
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He mitched from school and organised a gang that vandalised neighbours. He once threw another boy into the Royal Canal. When packed off to Mungret, a Jesuit boarding school in Limerick, he absconded. In despair, early in 1. For three years the adolescent Brendan led a peripatetic existence there, moving between Catholic religious communities, doing some teaching and reading incessantly to educate himself. After a brief visit home in 1. Liverpool. Posing as an Australian four years older than he was, he got a teaching post.
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He claimed that his parents had died in a bush fire in Australia and had left him money to complete his education. He was admitted but remained for only one term.
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It was enough to give him the important label . Next followed further teaching jobs. Standing over 6ft tall, Bracken had a commanding presence and an intimidating manner, alternatively ingratiating and overbearing, which enabled him to impose himself on people.
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He was immensely knowledgeable. Telling various fairy tales about his origins, he set out to become part of the British establishment. He volunteered to organise an election campaign for Churchill, and the two men were soon so close that it was rumoured they were father and son. When questioned by his wife, Churchill offered teasingly to check the dates. Bracken established himself in publishing, founding the Banker for his firm, and then built up a group of quality newspapers, including the Financial News (later to merge with the Financial Times) and the Economist, for whom he devised a model charter of editorial independence.
He established himself in a townhouse in Westminster with a faithful butler and cook and was driven about by a chauffeur. There was an outsize knocker on the door that betokened the style of life within. He acquired works of art, including a portrait of Edmund Burke, whom he hinted was a relative.
Evelyn Waugh found in the name- dropping Bracken material for Rex Mottram, a social- climbing colonial in his novel Brideshead Revisited. Noting a chameleon- like quality, an acquaintance said: . In 1. 92. 9 Bracken was elected MP for North Paddington, helped in a fierce contest by the votes of local ladies of . Sensing something bogus in press accounts of his background, opponents spread the rumour that he was a Polish Jew. He was forced to exhibit his Templemore birth certificate on a circular stating that . When, at the outbreak of war, Churchill joined the government, Bracken was at his side briefing the press and others in his master.
He had a crucial role in the manoeuvres that led to Churchill becoming prime minister in May 1. Bracken moved in to live in the bunker annexed to 1.
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Downing Street. Now an insider, he earned the gratitude of many who had distrusted him, including Churchill. Through his friendship with influential Americans, Bracken lubricated the wheels of Anglo- American co- operation. ADVERTISEMENT Conscripted by Churchill to a languishing ministry of information, Bracken won universal acclaim. A master spin doctor decades before the term was invented, he wooed the press privately and in conference with titbits of inside information. He stood up to Churchill to ensure that the press and the BBC had access to news and reasonable freedom.
At the end of the war, Bracken was briefly first lord of the admiralty. He was a leading Tory spokesmen at the postwar general election and was among those most blamed for their crushing defeat. On the opposition front bench after 1. He opposed the leftward drift of the Conservative Party. Anticipating Thatcherism, he was a champion of laissez- faire and enterprising businessmen.
In 1. 95. 1, pleading ill- health, Bracken refused office as colonial secretary in Churchill. He was created Viscount Bracken but never took his seat in the House of Lords, which in his irreverent way he called the Morgue.
He remained close to Churchill and masterminded the press cover- up of his stroke in 1. Despite the pointless lying of his young life, Bracken was a man of probity. Insistence on high standards was his acknowledged legacy to the Financial Times, over which he continued to preside. A gifted phrasemaker himself, he loved good writing, and his letters make good reading. If, in his heyday, Bracken was well described as a fantasist whose fantasies came true. In his 5. 0s he became melancholic, fearful and reclusive. He had achieved his ambition of being an honoured member of the British establishment, but it was as if it had turned to sand in his hands.
He paid the penalty for heavy smoking when cancer claimed him in 1. Despite his abrasive manner, Bracken inspired immense affection and was remembered for many kindly actions, helping the obscure as well as his friends. His moving, affectionate letters to her up to her premature death in 1. Little Museum, are a highlight of its exhibition on Bracken and reveal a side of him unknown to his British contemporaries.
After her death in 1. Ireland. He continued to support needy members of his family while avoiding personal contact with them. Like Churchill, Bracken admired Kevin O. He opposed the surrender in 1.
British, saying . He condemned de Valera and . In 1. 95. 8 he pleaded with his fellow trustees of the National Gallery not to agree to the return of the Lane pictures to Dublin. On his deathbed he ordered his nurses not to admit Irish priests (including his own nephew), who longed to reconcile him to his childhood faith. There was no turning back.
It is ironic that Brendan is now less remembered in the England he idealised than in Ireland, where his life story commands interest as the prototype of the Irish person who wants to make himself British. That this no longer makes him unmentionable or prevents recognition of his achievements was signalled by Christy Cooney, the president of the GAA, in 2. Queen Elizabeth was welcomed at Croke Park, once the high citadel of Irish Anglophobia. As evidence of the entanglement of our two peoples that transcended past divisions, he mentioned the strange fact that the son of a founder of their association had served as a minister when Elizabeth. This would have struck a chord with Her Majesty, as she had dined with Bracken as Churchill.
Churchill and the Irishman is at the Little Museum of Dublin until September 2. WHO WAS BRENDAN BRACKEN? He was one of the most mysterious and influential Irishmen of the 2.
Over the next three months, Winston Churchill. Everyone knows something about Brendan Bracken, and it. The man himself is partly to blame. Bracken was a champion spoofer. When his fibs were exposed, he would cheerfully dismiss them as the product of a fabulous imagination. However, he was also a man of substance, rising from modest roots . During the second World War, Bracken was minister of information in Churchill.
And along the way, Bracken wrote letters to his mother in Ireland. Never seen in public before, the letters reveal the inner thoughts of a loving young man in a hurry. In producing this exhibition we are not trying to reclaim Bracken for Ireland. It would be convenient if he had reconciled himself to the country of his birth. The closest confidant of Britain. Ultimately this amazing story enhances our understanding of the complex shared history of these islands.
Trevor White, director of the Little Museum of Dublin.