Irish Ship Names

A while back someone was asking about Irish ship names. The problem is 
that for a long time Ireland was British (favourite trick question, What

was the second largest city in Britain after London in the nineteenth 
century? Answer: Dublin!).
This is still delicate ground so I am trying to be acurate without 
offending anyone (Northern Ireland, twinned with Bosnia?).
The Royal Navy had some famous Irish ship names, HMS Erin and HMS 
Shannon spring readily to mind. A look at any old ship list (Conway has 
a nice but expensive one) should do the trick.
Re the Irish question. Is it part of the NAC? Not without a lot of 
bother, Personally I would love to see them back in the union but I 
doubt it.

		 Michael R. Blair
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