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Samuel Beckett Bridge (Irish: Droichead Samuel Beckett) is a cable-stayed swingbridge in Dublin, Ireland [2] that joins Sir John Rogerson's Quay on the south side of the River Liffey to Guild Street and North Wall Quay in the Docklands area.
Ohio Impromptu is a "playlet" by Samuel Beckett. Written in English in 1980, it began as a favour to S.E. Gontarski , who requested a dramatic piece to be performed at an academic symposium in Columbus, Ohio , in honour of Beckett’s seventy-fifth birthday.
The Samuel Beckett Bridge is one of the many bridges that crosses over the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland. It joins Sir John Rogerson’s Quay on the south side to Guild Street and North Wall Quay in the Docklands area.
It is a cable-stayed bridge, whose main structure consists of 25 straps front and 6 rear, with a runway of 124 meters long, 27 meters wide and a single pylon 40 feet tall. The cross section of the board is a box girder with cantilever ribs on each side that can accommodate four lanes of traffic.
- Dublin, Ireland
The Samuel Beckett bridge is a cable stayed, steel box girder structure with a span of 123m over the Liffey. Designed by Santiago Calatrava in conjunction with Roughan O’Donovan (Dublin); the bridge was built by Graham Hollandia Joint Venture Contractors.
- Graham Hollandia Joint Venture
- Steel
- Santiago Calatrava
- Cable-stayed (swing)
The bridge is 124 meters long and the largest span is 95 meters. The bridge is named after the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. Here you will find information, technical measurements and images of Samuel Beckett Bridge.
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Samuel Barclay Beckett ( / ˈbɛkɪt / ⓘ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense.
