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William Bourke Cockran- The Irishman Who Taught Winston Churchill The Gift Of The Gab!

This 45-minute radio documentary is named “William Bourke Cockran - The Irish Maverick In U.S. Politics Who Inspired Winston Churchill”. Theme of documentary- On the corner of Fifth Avenue and 58th Street in Manhattan, New York, roughly where Apple’s flagship Fifth Avenue retail store is located today, once stood the home of perhaps the most famous Irish-American most people have never heard of. William Bourke Cockran was a Sligo-man, who in 1871 at the age of 17 emigrated to the United States. Within a few years he’d become a successful New York lawyer and politician regarded in his day (from the 1880s to the 1920s), as the United States’ greatest orator. He was a trusted adviser to several US presidents and a friend to men of the calibre of Mark Twain. In the 1890s he became the lover of Jenny Churchill, the mother of Winston Churchill, after her husband died. As a result, when the 19-year-old Winston first visited New York in 1895, he was put up by Cockran. For the next 12 years Cockran became Churchill’s primary political guru and mentor, especially in oratory. Later in the 1950s, Churchill credited Cockran’s profound influence over him, how he “…inspired me …”, as well as “taught me how to use every note of the human voice like an organ. He was my model.” Cockran is nowadays acknowledged as one of the key-creators of “Visionary Rhetoric”: an emotion-evoking and evocative style of public speaking built on idealism, which has been used by all the greatest public speakers from the early 20th century onwards, including JFK and Martin Luther King. Also, although Bourke Cockran’s name may not appear in many accounts of the Irish revolutionary period (1916-23), nevertheless his great influence at the highest levels of both the American and British political establishments ensured that Ireland’s rights as a small nation were recognized and her eventual freedom achieved in 1922. If that wasn’t enough, he was also one of the most successful courtroom advocates of his day. Yet despite these colossal achievements, Cockran is virtually unknown in his native Ireland nowadays. This 45-minute radio documentary aims to help resurrect the folk-memory of this Sligo-born colossus of Irish-America, who helped mentor the young Winston Churchill in oratory and politics; as well as who throughout his life was a fearless champion for those on the margins, as well as a tireless proponent of Irish freedom. All dramatic narrations of the voice of William Bourke Cockran by Vincent Lavery, who used to work for Bobby Kennedy in the 1960s. ** Dramatic narration of excerpt of 1923 New York Times by Michael Roddy, who used to work for Reuters.