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Topic: Brendan, Viscount Bracken


  
  Janus: The Papers of Brendan Bracken, Viscount Bracken of Christchurch
Brendan Rendall Bracken was born on 15 February 1901 in County Tipperary, the son of Joseph Kevin Bracken and Hannah Agnes Ryan.
Bracken was a "bright and unruly child" (Jason Tomes) and attended several schools including St Patrick's national school, O'Connell School, and Mungret, a Jesuit boarding-school.
Bracken's "social success was that of an unconventional 'character': a loud-mouthed know-all, impervious to rebuffs, who gatecrashed parties and insulted everyone with reckless abandon.
janus.lib.cam.ac.uk /db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/0014/BBKN;sib0=10   (643 words)

  
 Alan Rickman Audio Tapes & Radio Plays
Brendan Bracken was born in Co. Tipperary in 1901.
Brendan Bracken’s first few words have a slight Irish accent (to my ear, anyway) before slipping into the perfect tones of a slightly tetchy, bored English gentleman.
The rest of the story covers Bracken’s life, from his sudden appearance into English political society reinventing his past, his schooldays, his Oxford education and his friendship with Churchill as well as his success as a publisher (The Economist, etc).
www.rickmanistareview.com /audio.html   (1174 words)

  
 Brendan Bracken
A member of the Conservative Party, Bracken was elected to the House of Commons in 1929.
Bracken lost his Cabinet post after the 1945 General Election.
The 1922 Committee was addressed by Brendan Bracken, that kind-hearted, garrulous, red-headed gargoyle, whom I have always considered a fraud, au fond: he is an indifferent Minister, promising all and doing little - inoperative in fact, and prejudiced.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jbracken.htm   (271 words)

  
 TSSGFC.com : Teach Mealog . Sraid Singe . Templeogue . Synge Street
The seven founder members were Michael Cusack, Maurice Davis (who presided) John Wyse Power, John McKay, J. Bracken, Joseph O'Ryan and Thomas St. George McCarthy.
McKay was a Belfast journalist then on the "Cork Examiner", who later worked in the House of Commons in London before returning to Cork in the early 1900's.
Bracken was a Tipperary stonemason, whose son, Viscount Brendan Bracken, was a member of Sir Winston Churchill's World War II coalition government.
www.tssgfc.com /gaa_history.php   (1484 words)

  
 Library
Sir Winston Churchill: The compelling life story of one of the towering figures of the 20th Century.
Being the proceedings of an academic meeting held in Sanders Theatre and of an assemblage in the Harvard Yard of the Military and Naval Forces of the United States in training at the University.
The Life and Letters of David, Earl Beatty: Admiral of the Fleet, Viscount Borodale of Wexford Baron Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby.
www.collegeofthedesert.edu /students/services/library/index.asp?id=372   (1079 words)

  
 NPG x86451; Brendan Bracken, Viscount Bracken
10 of 18 portraits of Brendan Bracken, Viscount Bracken
Artist associated with 9750 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE.
www.npg.org.uk /live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp00526&rNo=9&role=sit   (36 words)

  
 The Bishops Stortford College - Bishop's Stortford and Thorley - A History and Guide
When party leader Ian Smith declared Rhodesia a republic in 1970, Dupont became its first president – a post he held until 1976.
One other prominent name associated with the College was Brendan Bracken (1901–1958).
He temporarily joined the prep school staff in 1921, staying for just two terms.
www.stortfordhistory.co.uk /guide5/stortford_college.html   (1605 words)

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