An Irish Flag acceptable to all is a highly Complex Constitutional Matter

An Irish flag for all is a highly complex constitutional matter.

Seosamh O Hoctain Newry March 23rd wants Martin Mc Guinness and Peter Robinson to design a flag that is acceptable to all. Such a task is not within the remit of the Assembly or Dail Éireann but is within the remit of Westminster. A new flag for Ireland would need to be ratified by Westminster first and then approved by the Irish people in a referendum.

IN my published writing on the British/Irish problem I’ve taken it upon myself to design a flag that could be flown on St Patrick’s Day or the Twelfth of July. In my suggested National Government of Ireland Act there is a redesign of the existing Tricolour in which the red Irish saltire is imposed on the white central panel of the Tricolour along with the Kingdom emblems of the crown (newly designed) harp and shamrock. In the Act the flag would be defined as The Royal Flag of Ireland which is the National flag of Ireland and a symbol of the Federal Kingdom of the Sovereign Nation of Ireland and Great Britain. A new flag on its own will not solve the historic British/Irish problem, that will require a new constitution for Ireland expressed in the National Government of Ireland Act giving a reformed Crown as Head of State to be democratically elected in Ireland. That is the crux issue in the resolution of the British Irish problem. In my published writing I’ve put forward a suggested National Government of Ireland Act that runs to over 20,000 words.

If Seosamh wises to look into this further a trilogy of works on the British /Irish problem is available from my publisher Authorhouse. The trilogy can be found by using www.authorhouse.co.uk and then by typing my name into the search engine.


Michael Gillespie Derry