The title of Romani Uriah Burton’s 26-page collaborative life story includes the words “aims” and “ideals,” and these two words capture significant parts of the contents of the life story. Aims include building a caravan park for his fellow Gypsies and Travellers to live on, walking from Belfast to Dublin in “Peace People” style, constructing a monument to his father on top of a Welsh hilltop, and negotiating punishments in terms of “Gypsy Law”. Some of these aims were ideals to begin with, but he made them real, while other ideas remained ideals, but not for the want of trying. The following words can be seen directly after the title on the inner flap of the life story: “WITH GREETINGS TO ALL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD,” and these few words also capture parts of the life story. Burton took personal action to bring attention to the much-needed idea of peace in a troubled Ireland, but he also wanted world peace. One aspect of Burton’s identity seems to contradict this description – he was a renowned no-rules, bare-knuckle fighter with a fierce reputation, but he depicts himself as maintaining the idea that he used his many abilities, including his fighting ability, to preserve and maintain different forms of peace. His lifestory is quite rare, as there were only a few hundred copies published; it has circulated within Gypsy circles, and, he writes: “Four copies of this article have been issued to every country in the world” (p. 23). The life story is referred to as a booklet and an article, and the 1st of January, 1980, is suggested as the “day of the declaration of peace”: that is, the declaration of the desire for world peace. Burton claims that he has difficulty making himself understood and understanding modern society (p.1), but maybe it is time that he was understood; my presentation will consist of an attempt to do so.