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New naval vessel named after Irish writer James Joyce

Xinhua, September 2, 2015 Adjust font size:

A new Irish naval vessel was formally named on Tuesday after the country's famous writer James Joyce, the military said.

At a ceremony in Dun Laoghaire, a suburban seaside town in County Dublin, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said his country named the naval vessel after Joyce, a world-renowned Irish novelist and poet, because the work done by Joyce to help Jews in the Second World War should be remembered.

The 90-meter-long ship, which was built by Britain's Appledore shipyard, is an offshore patrol vessel. It has a top speed of 23 knots.

Joyce, born in 1882 in Dublin, was considered to be one of the most influential writers in the early 20th century. He is best known for Ulysses, a modernist novel.

Ireland has decided to name the three new naval vessels after Irish writers William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett and James Joyce. Both Yeats and Beckett are Nobel Prize laureates. Enditem