The MV Naomh Eanna was the important link to the mainland of Ireland for a small group of three islands which make up the Aran Islands off the West Coast of Ireland. The ship was built in the Liffey Dockyard, Dublin from 1956 to 1958. She was the last riveted built ship in not only Ireland but it is believed Europe.
The ship did 30 long years of loyal service to these three islands, to and from Galway Bay through one of the roughest seas in the world, until she retired and returned to Dublin in 1988. In no doubt not only did she help the survival of these wonderful isolated communities of the sea and their unique and important part of Irelands culture and heritage but most importantly help assist the survival of the Irish (Gaeilge) language during years when it could have so easily been lost and forgotten.
The ship also featured in the Michael Collins movie with Liam Neeson !
The ship was moved to a NAMA graving Dock in Grand Canal Dock and after a long and difficult battle and campaign by many people the ship was saved from the immediate threat of being broken up and sold by Waterways Ireland for scrap metal in 2014.
It was hoped the ship would be restored as a jewel of Ireland’s Maratime history and used as a museum in Galway or a hotel in Dublin but sadly since, the various business plans that were discussed failed to come to fruition and she was never offered any help or support the ship fall further into disrepair.
The ship sits with a heavy list and slowly sinking into its grave, a sad day for Irish Maritime history and a poignant note that this happened because the powers that be choose to do nothing to preserve our maritime heritage.
It’s not sad. It’s been a junk wreck for decades now and it should have been scrapped many years ago. Get rid of it and rebuild that whole grim end of the grand canal dock.
A metaphor for Ireland
I always wondered about this ship. My dentist is down there and I would sit on the dock if I was early. I thought environmental activists lived on it 🤷🏻♀️
I noticed that at the weekend and thought it was definitely only recent. Who owns it? Surely that’s classed as polluting?
Good riddance. Now sell the land and use it finally
Just scrap it already.
Let the Travellers have it. That would be some show.
In the hi-res version of this shot you can actually see the rats leaving
Cheap housing
They’ll allow that there but threaten any live aboard boats with eviction and confiscation?
Its a piece of junk. It should of been removed a long time ago and the owner should be fined for enviromental damange,
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The MV Naomh Eanna was the important link to the mainland of Ireland for a small group of three islands which make up the Aran Islands off the West Coast of Ireland. The ship was built in the Liffey Dockyard, Dublin from 1956 to 1958. She was the last riveted built ship in not only Ireland but it is believed Europe.
The ship did 30 long years of loyal service to these three islands, to and from Galway Bay through one of the roughest seas in the world, until she retired and returned to Dublin in 1988. In no doubt not only did she help the survival of these wonderful isolated communities of the sea and their unique and important part of Irelands culture and heritage but most importantly help assist the survival of the Irish (Gaeilge) language during years when it could have so easily been lost and forgotten.
The ship also featured in the Michael Collins movie with Liam Neeson !
The ship was moved to a NAMA graving Dock in Grand Canal Dock and after a long and difficult battle and campaign by many people the ship was saved from the immediate threat of being broken up and sold by Waterways Ireland for scrap metal in 2014.
It was hoped the ship would be restored as a jewel of Ireland’s Maratime history and used as a museum in Galway or a hotel in Dublin but sadly since, the various business plans that were discussed failed to come to fruition and she was never offered any help or support the ship fall further into disrepair.
The ship sits with a heavy list and slowly sinking into its grave, a sad day for Irish Maritime history and a poignant note that this happened because the powers that be choose to do nothing to preserve our maritime heritage.
It’s not sad. It’s been a junk wreck for decades now and it should have been scrapped many years ago. Get rid of it and rebuild that whole grim end of the grand canal dock.
A metaphor for Ireland
I always wondered about this ship. My dentist is down there and I would sit on the dock if I was early. I thought environmental activists lived on it 🤷🏻♀️
I noticed that at the weekend and thought it was definitely only recent. Who owns it? Surely that’s classed as polluting?
Good riddance. Now sell the land and use it finally
Just scrap it already.
Let the Travellers have it. That would be some show.
In the hi-res version of this shot you can actually see the rats leaving
Cheap housing
They’ll allow that there but threaten any live aboard boats with eviction and confiscation?
Its a piece of junk. It should of been removed a long time ago and the owner should be fined for enviromental damange,
Who is the current owner?
One man’s boat is another man’s income
Fill it full of ping pong balls.
The fucking state of it.
Where did you find this picture OP?