See here for other tales from County Sligo Churchill’s Mentor Winston Churchill arguably won the Second World War through the excellence of his oratory. He attributed his public speaking skills to his Sligo-born mentor, Bourke Cockran. Born in Claragh, Ballinacarrow, in 1854, Cockran grew up on Sligo’s Wine Street. At the age of […]
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