White even talks about the IRA in The Sword in the Stone. I don’t know how he got away with hijacking his characters in the way that he did to convey his own ideas and in his own timeline but he did. He lived in Ireland during World War Two to avoid conscription, and wrote The Sword in the Stone here, and reaped the benefits of its success here. It was this book that catapulted him into Hollywood, and it was later work of this that was adopted into the musical- film with Vanessa Redgrave and Richard Harris. Camelot which might have been the making of him, if he had not spiralled into depression and alchololism. He was 57 when he was found dead in his cabin during a Meditteranean cruise.