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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. [3]
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- BECKETT BROKE LITERARY RULES BY WRITING BOOKS WITHOUT CHARACTERS AND PLOT. Considered one of the last Modernists, or sometimes the first Postmodernist, Beckett wrote novels and plays with minimal characters, plot, and scenery.
- HE BEFRIENDED JAMES JOYCE, BUT THE TWO WRITERS HAD A FALLING OUT. In the late 1920s in Paris, Beckett worked as writer James Joyce’s assistant, helping him transcribe and do research for Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake.
- HE LOVED PLAYING AND WATCHING SPORTS … As a student at a boarding school in Northern Ireland, Beckett was a talented cricket player. When he was 20 years old, he even played a few games for the Dublin University Cricket Club.
- AND HIS WRITING INSPIRED A TENNIS STAR’S TATTOO. Swiss tennis player Stanislas Wawrinka has beaten favorites Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic to win the 2014 Australian Open and 2015 French Open, respectively.
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)
On 10 December 2009, the new bridge across the River Liffey in Dublin was opened and named the Samuel Beckett Bridge in his honour. Reminiscent of a harp on its side, it was designed by the celebrated Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava , who had also designed the James Joyce Bridge situated further upstream and opened on Bloomsday (16 June) 2003.
The Samuel Beckett bridge is a cable stayed, steel box girder structure with a span of 123 meters over the Liffey, which rotates through 90 degrees. The pylon curves northwards to a point 48 meters above the water level with 25 cables set in a harp formation.
Timeline. 1906. Samuel Barclay Beckett is born on Good Friday, April 13th. 1913. The Lockout fails to improve conditions of Dublin’s poor. 1928. Samuel Beckett leaves for Paris. 1930. Beckett’s poem, ‘Whoroscope’, wins a small literary prize of £10.
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Jan 7, 2022 · Following in the footsteps of Samuel Beckett in Paris, the city the absurdist playwright called home for more than 50 years.
