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Soviet russia too! From wiki:
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Another literary genius no doubt but having moved away from here at 19 and developed questionable political leanings surely there was a better candidate. Yeats aside, the only credidentials required to have an Irish Naval Ship named for you is to have written some higher literary work appealing only to the scholarly mind and to have spent most of your life elsewhere. The P60's really are the class of questionable Irishmen. They did nothing to advance their country but we name bridges or boats after them.
Heaney, Kavanagh, Friel. Much better choices.
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National Naming choices
Originally posted by Jetjock View PostAnother literary genius no doubt but having moved away from here at 19 and developed questionable political leanings surely there was a better candidate. Yeats aside, the only credidentials required to have an Irish Naval Ship named for you is to have written some higher literary work appealing only to the scholarly mind and to have spent most of your life elsewhere. The P60's really are the class of questionable Irishmen. They did nothing to advance their country but we name bridges or boats after them.
Heaney, Kavanagh, Friel. Much better choices.
We should consider recycling ships names MACHA, Cliona, Etc.
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Originally posted by Jetjock View PostAnother literary genius no doubt but having moved away from here at 19 and developed questionable political leanings surely there was a better candidate. Yeats aside, the only credidentials required to have an Irish Naval Ship named for you is to have written some higher literary work appealing only to the scholarly mind and to have spent most of your life elsewhere. The P60's really are the class of questionable Irishmen. They did nothing to advance their country but we name bridges or boats after them.
Heaney, Kavanagh, Friel. Much better choices.
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Continuing to try to fix what wasnt broken in the first place.
I always thought a new modern class of ship that reused older names cliona, maev, macha, grainne etc would have done a lot to highlight how far the navy has come from the days of second hand corrvettes and tons.
Ive no major oposition to the new names other than my own personal preference though.Scheduled fun will commence at 1900Hrs.
Punishment beatings will continue until moral improves.
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Originally posted by sofa View PostWould prefer more warrey/aggresive type names , but the present batch of drunks names sticks in the publics mind better then names in Irish.
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