The novel --THE WAY IRELFAND OUGHT TO BE --is a fiction derived from composite life experiences. The novel relates Dr Quinn's struggle in a psychiatric clinic to discover his true self and his true identity as an Irish man. In the struggle he creates ---The National Government of Ireland Act as the solution to the Irish Problem

The novel is a companion to this series of articles and is recommended reading. The novel can be bought in any bookshop in the U.K./Ireland or through any book agency on the Internet

A Skirmish with Academia

In setting up this blog I am an experienced published writer. My interest in writing has to do with the solution to the Irish Problem. Towards that end I have published a novel titled--- THE WAY IRELAND OUGHT TO BE--- brought out by Authorhouse in late 2007. While the novel is set in a psychiatric clinic in Belfast it deals with the Irish Problem and has a strong political theme.

I have also been a regular contributor to the Irish political journal---THE BLANKET--. This journal has now closed down as its editorial staff felt that the journal had met its remit in current Irish politics. The entire contents of the journal since its inception is now stored in the archives of the library of the University of Indianapolis in America.

I am now working on a second political novel titled---THE RAPE OF VIRGIN MUNCHINDUN---, MUNCHINDUN being a fictional district in Tyrone, not a woman. That said I have a few articles in mind which would be suitable for the Blanket but it has gone out of circulation. I contacted the editor of The Blanket, Carrie Twomey and explained my predicament. Helpfully Carrie advise me to use a blog as other writers who wrote for The Blanket were doing that.

This was a helpful suggestion but before doing that I decided to search the Internet for journals. The only publications I could in Ireland were Fortnight in Belfast and a
Jesuit publication in Dublin called Studies. I sent a sample article to Studies but it was turned down. Probably the Jesuits only accept religious articles and the article I sent them was political.

I also tried the journal Fortnight in Belfast I sent Fortnight the same article as I sent the Jesuits but got no reply. I phoned the journal repeatedly for some time but could only get an answering machine. I left messages requesting a reply but nothing happened. So much for Fortnight.

I then tried G.B. and found some political journals but these were connected with the Faculties of Political Science in Universities. I choose to give the University of Sheffield a try. In this case I did not send an article but I sent them a C.V. and explained my writing interest lay in exploring ideas having to do with the solution to the Irish Problem and that I was in a position to send the Faculty of Political Science an article or articles to that effect. The Faculty replied by sending me three articles from their journal that had to do with Irish politics. The lady in charge explained that the articles would give me an idea of the style of thing that the Faculty at Sheffield published. I read through the three articles and was unimpressed and quite dismayed. I replied to the Faculty at Sheffield in this way. I said I had examined the articles and found, not to my surprise, that the articles were composed of obscure abstruse academic jargon that was accessible in meaning only to an elite few. To clarify what I was talking about I gave the following dictionary definition of Jargon.

(1) Specialized or technical language of a trade class or fellowship.
(2) A hybrid language or dialect.
(3) A nonsensical, incoherent or meaningless utterance --- gibberish.
(4) Argot a specialized vocabulary or set of idioms used by a particular class or group. Originally a private language used by thieves.
(5) Cant a special terminology used by a profession, discipline, or class but obscure to the general population.
I also noted how Virginia Woolf and Thomas Carlyle had seen jargon.

Virginia Woolf
She could not follow the ugly academic jargon.

Thomas Carlyle
Wholly a blessed time: when jargon abates and genuine speech begins.

With the quotes in mind I sent three articles of my own to the Faculty at Sheffield noting that my political articles were not written in hard to follow ugly academic jargon (Virginia Woolf) but in easy to follow genuine speech (Carlyle). I made clear that in the articles sent to me, the authors wrote cant in argot and didn’t belong to the same club as I do who writes in plain easy to follow Queen’s English that can be understood and followed by all, not by an elite few. Understandably I got no reply from the Faculty of Political Science at Sheffield.

From my own experience, academic research can be expressed in simple Queen’s English. Some years ago I completed a major research thesis at the Queen’s University in Belfast. The external examiner congratulated me on writing the thesis in simple easy to understand language which was, as the examiner put it, a pleasant change from the obscure impenetrable language that academic thesis are usually written in.

The writers of the articles sent to me were obviously pillars of the Irish political establishment and their articles were directed to the fellowship of an elite clique at Sheffield. The writers were in an ivory tower and apart from the reality of the historic problem. The Irish problem as dealt with in this blog has to do with flags, emblems symbols and above all the U.K. Constitution of the six counties. The articles in this blog will put forward a non –sectarian rational and coherent solution to the historic Irish Problem. The world of academia is oblivious to the real Irish Problem.

Michael Gillespie Federal Unionist – Early Sinn Fein

B.Ed B.Sc (Econ) Dip.Ed D.A.S.E. M.A.(Ed)