Penulis: Michael Gillespie

The author was educated at Queens University, Belfast where he holds two primary degrees, one in English and one in Economics and Mathematics. He also made an in-depth study of Education at Queens and holds an M.A. in Education. He intended to complete a Ph D in Education but that did not materialise. The author taught in Strabane in Co Tyrone in N. Ireland in Sunbury-on-Thames in London, and in Belfast. In Belfast he taught in a hard line Republican district called Andersonstown, in a Secondary School run by the La Salle Brothers, a teaching order of the Roman Catholic Church. He taught there during the height of the troubles and in the midst of violence and riot. The author was an active member of a teachers union, the Irish National Teachers Organisation, an All Ireland body. He was elected President of the West Belfast branch of the union; this branch being the largest branch in Ireland its Presidency was a position of status in the union. As President the author learnt that one of the Brothers was an active member of the I.R.A. and was recruiting pupils into the junior wing of the I.R.A.—the Fianna—. The author challenged the brother who was school principal about this and called for the I.R.A. brother to be dismissed from the order and sacked as a teacher. This stirred up a hornets nest in the school and the hard line Republican clique that dominated the school retaliated by forcing the author to resign his teaching position. This was a life changing experience. The author decided to give up teaching and abandon his plans of doing a Ph D and instead work exclusively on the solution to the Irish problem. On learning this the authors wife thought he had gone mental so she talked to a psychiatrist who told her to have her husband admitted. In a clinic the author talked to a doctor about his work in La Salle about his work in the university and about his work in the union. He told the doctor he had given all of that up and would now devote his energies to work exclusively on the solution to the Irish problem. He explained he was convinced in his own mind that the Irish problem was now solvable in The National Government of Ireland Act which he was now writing and towards that end he had designed a new flag for Ireland called the Royal Flag of Ireland, which he had seen in a dream. The doctor told him he was divorced from reality, that he was taken over by politics and that his ideas were bizarre and outlandish. The doctor told him he must realize he is a schizophrenic and as a schizophreni