Mick, By saying the old songs came from a long way away I was not suggesting they or the events they are concerned with should be forgotten, only that they are perhaps less fresh in the memory and therefore less contintious, far from being forgotten they should be treated as a memorial to mankinds follies and maybe one day we will, as a species, learn from them and not repeat our mistakes. As a bonus some of the old irish songs are among the most memorable and most haunting I know and are a pleasure to listen to and to sing. We should not forget the past but neither should we allow the past to stop us going forward into the future.

Jon