Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/11/27

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: James Joyce Gun Folk
From: imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 12:04:22 -0000
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Ireland has recently got delivery of three Navy ships for coastal patrol, 
and they are called after famous Irish writers - James Joyce, Samuel 
Beckett, and W. B. Yeats. You could say "a terrible beauty is born" :-)

I driving back from my swim in Sandycove, and saw that the L.E. James Joyce 
was moored in Dun Laoghaire, so I went down to it. As I walked down to the 
pier, I met a young female officer and asked her could people go aboard. She 
said no, and asked me was I interested in the armed forces. Between the jigs 
and the reels, I persuaded her that I was not a terrorist, and she took me 
up the gangway, and signed me in. Although, I had little time I had the run 
of the ship which was quite interesting. There had been a medal ceremony on 
board earlier and the only other civilians there were members of the crew's 
families.

I'll post more photos of the ship later.

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2016 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: James Joyce Gun Folk


> How is it a James Joyce gun?
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 4:39 AM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
>
>> Inspection of weapon.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Dun+Laoghaire/
>> Boats_Ships/James+Joyce/James+Joyce+Gun+Folk.jpg.html
>>
>> Fuji X100S. See Large.
>>
>> Douglas
>>
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