RE: UN Ship Nomenclature

Do you happen to have any historic Irish ship names that you could pass
along?

Thanks,
Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niall Gilsenan [SMTP:ngilsena@indigo.ie]
> Sent: Saturday, August 08, 1998 8:50 PM
> To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject:	Re: UN Ship Nomenclature
> 
> Amazing how my rambling causes everyone to miss the point.  Afrikaans
was
> simply the first language that sprang to mind.  I know as much about
as I
> want to know.  Oddly enough I do know a little bit about the
> Boers/Afrikaaners since there were a couple of brigades of Irish
troops
> fighting on their side during the Boer war.  Any excuse to pick a
fight
> with the British...
> 
> And if we really want to get into a linguistic discussion I could
start
> naming places in Irish.  The point being that with regard to the UN
fleet
> in Full Thrust we shouldn't restrict ourselves to exclusively english
> names
> for places.	This would be more in keeping with the "feel" of the UN.
> 
> Or maybe not.  Whatever works for everyone.
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> DIT Cathal Brugha St,
> Dublin 1,
> Ireland.
> 
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