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‘War and Peace’ was written in order to provide the Renaissance song ‘Watkin’s Ale’ with a decorous text. The poem has already appeared in FoMRHI Quarterly 121 (May, 2012), whose genial editor, Mr Christopher Goodwin, does not object to its new manifestation. You won’t understand the rhythm of the poem unless you look up the tune of ‘Watkin’s Ale’ on the internet. ‘War and Peace’ has a perceptible all-Ireland dimension. Bray town centre appears on the front cover. Offaly, Belfast, and Cork feature in three of the pictures. (‘Old Friends’ is based on a medieval icon of Naboth.) For its part the rear cover involves a severely stylised view of the Blue Lough, near Annalong, Co. Down, where the author sometimes goes for a swim, and where Snow White is believed to have conferred with Arthur O’Shaughnessy. History can be a jolly complicated business. David Crookes
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‘War and Peace’ was written in order to provide the Renaissance song ‘Watkin’s Ale’ with a decorous text. The poem has already appeared in FoMRHI Quarterly 121 (May, 2012), whose genial editor, Mr Christopher Goodwin, does not object to its new manifestation. You won’t understand the rhythm of the poem unless you look up the tune of ‘Watkin’s Ale’ on the internet. ‘War and Peace’ has a perceptible all-Ireland dimension. Bray town centre appears on the front cover. Offaly, Belfast, and Cork feature in three of the pictures. (‘Old Friends’ is based on a medieval icon of Naboth.) For its part the rear cover involves a severely stylised view of the Blue Lough, near Annalong, Co. Down, where the author sometimes goes for a swim, and where Snow White is believed to have conferred with Arthur O’Shaughnessy. History can be a jolly complicated business. David Crookes
