Samuel Beckett Bridge

Lovely modern bridge resembling a harp. You can take silly pictures of your pals ‘playing’ the harp…

A very nice sight in Dublin. It is a great place to head if your walking down the liffey. There is a nice pub just next to it called the ferryman, if you need a short break from the walk. You can also head towards the docklands and check out the place around Grand Canal.
At night time they also light up the bridge so it looks even more amazing. In general walking along the liffey a night can be quite nice as most of the buidlings are lit up.

The bridge is beautiful and is a key landmark of Dublin and Ireland. Saw it from siting in the sushi restaurant J2. You must take a few picture while you are there. Beautiful at night.

Tis a grand awld bridge, get ya across the liffey while keeping you out of the wet stuff, what more could ya ask for

what a great icon, looks good from all angles, from a distance and up close.

This is an amazing bridge. I walk it often when heading over to Grand Canal. It has a foot path and bike path so no worries about getting knocked down. Another fun fact is that it is a swingbridge. It can pivot out of the way to let larger ships pass. Its pretty cool to see that in action.

Samuel Beckett Bridge is a beautiful, harp shaped bridge that spans over the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland.
This bridge connects Sir John Rogerson’s Quay to Guild Street and North Wall Quay. Santiago Calatrava designed the Samuel Beckett Bridge in 2007 and the construction was completed in 2009. The shape of the tapered spar and its 31 cable stays evokes an image of a harp, the secular icon for Ireland.
While this bridge may not be the solution to Dublin’s traffic I think the bold design of this sleek and modern bridge is a beautiful addition to Dublin’s urban landscape.

I’m very happy to live besides this bridge, for me it represents really well the irish symbol the harp, good for pictures, or just to enjoy the view sitting by the liffey

Seriously cool bridge over the River Liffey in Dublin. Designed by Santiago Calatrava, the same architect that designed the new rail station being constructed in lower Manhattan, at the World Trade Center.
His architecture style is unique, you either love it or you don’t — I personally think it’s cool.
This isn’t a large bridge, so you need to walk across it even if to just say you did. Lighting at night looks good and makes for some good photos.
Everyone that visits Dublin talks about «the Harp Bridge»; I can say I crossed it while in Dublin.

I take serious issue with the high praise this bridge has received.
A bridge has 1 job, to get you across the river without getting your feet wet.
Once it has that bit down, THEN it’s time to sort out shape and and angle and colour and all that. But it’s all useless if you can’t bloody cross it…
This bridge is closed off for maintenance every 3 months for a week. What sort of idiot thought it was a good idea to build a bridge that had to be maintained 4 times a year?
I have lived just to the north of this bridge, and I can’t even count how many times I’ve had what should have been a 10 minute walk to the shop for milk into an hour long hike to the next bridge upriver.
It is SUCH a frustratingly badly designed bridge…

Awesome bridge, a very very good example for modern Irish architecture. Unfortunately a little bit off the path of the typical tourist routes, but nevertheless — plan it in your trip.

When I first arrived in Dublin, everyone says ‘you’ve got to check out the Guinness Factory, Jameson Distillery, and if you have time check out the Cliffs of Moher’… Okay okay ok… So, I did all that. Until one day at a souvenir shop, the tourist in me was browsing through postcards and noticed, ‘hey, what’s this fancy harp shaped bridge’.
Determined, I was going to find this local landmark and take touristy pictures. Being a non-​professional bridge hunter, I wiki searched and Unilocal’d information on it’s name and location. There was only two problems standing in my way, my work hours and days left in Dublin. Luckily for me, the sun in Ireland stays up for a long long time.
On a Tuesday night at approximately 7:57pm, there was cloud coverage, but still light left. I ran from work near Camden St, dropped my backpack off at the hotel, and I was on my way!
As I approached it, I could do nothing but stop and appreciate this fine engineering wonder. Other than the numerous pictures I took, I inspected every interlocking, inter-​working, and hanging piece that holds up the road. Admiring what each part does, you learn what roll that part plays, in safely connecting people from one side of the River Liffey to the other. I feel blessed, and I loved it!
Okay, I’m a dork for being a bit passionate about a bridge. But believe me, after seeing all the old school and historic buildings in the areas; This modern piece of art sure is a break from it all! Happy strolling!

This is my favorite bridge in all the world and it feels great to walk across this work of art each day. The Samuel Beckett bridge was designed by Santiago Calatrava and made to look like a giant harp laying on its side from one side of the Liffey to the other.
I rarely find a day where I do not see tourists and others taking pictures of this bridge. I even have countless pictures of it myself. The bridge looks so striking day or night, dawn or dusk, that you can hardly not photograph it. I walk across the bridge twice daily but never get tired of admiring its beautiful design.
If you google the bridge you can find some interesting pictures of its installation a few years ago. They basically built each side of the bridge here but constructed the actual bridge elsewhere and floated it by barge right up the river and snapped it into place. The bridge even opens by swinging on its base to allow ships to enter.
Very cool bridge.

Beautiful Bridge. Twice as beautiful at night when it’s lit up. The architecture of the bridge is very clever, similar to that of a ship.
If you’re in Dublin it’s a beautiful place to walk by, or take a photograph of!

This is a pretty magnificat bridge! I cross it about 12 time a week! I spend many a minute (usually 15) stuck in traffic on it! I can never get use to the suspension on it makes your car sway every so slightly or sometimes ever not so slightly! I remember the first few times times I was on it I had to put down my window and stick my head out of the car just to see why on earth my car was swaying! I did that for another 3 or 4 times before I realised it was the suspension on the bridge!
The bridge is great for people into photography — great shots to be taken and with the convention centre beside it that makes two great photographic shots! Two birds one stone –or should that be one bridge one convention centre??? You will always find tourists and pro photographers taking shots on the bridge.
Anyway I leave this review in the words of James Brown ‘Take it to the bridge’

I love walking across this bridge every day.

It’s a bridge… surly that’s it?! you use it to get from one side of the riverbank to the other without getting your feet wet.
nope, that’s not all there is to it, it is the first in a litany of pretty and functional structures that stretch from the bridge to grand canal square and together they drag Dublin kicking and screaming into the 21^st Century.
I love it

Imagine my delight when I found out that a brand new Santiago Calatrava-​designed bridge would be officially open to the public in Dublin just one day before I was due to make my first visit to Ireland!
You may know this Spanish architect’s other work, like the Sundial Bridge over the Sacramento River in Redding, California and the Bilbao Airport’s new terminal in Spain.
The Samuel Beckett Bridge, over the River Liffey, looks a bit like a harp on its side. It’s a great place to begin your stay in Dublin, since knowing the role the river plays (even numbered postal codes are on the south side of the river, while odd numbered post codes are on the north) in how Dublin is set up can help you a lot in your explorations of Ireland’s capital city.
I can’t wait to walk over this bridge in milder temperatures!

What’s the worry? It’s only a bridge.
Actually, the poised arch and strumming cables of the Samuel Beckett Bridge is about to become so much more. As the second commissioned bridge by Santiago Calatrava, the Spanish architect behind the less grand but equally fluid James Joyce bridge, Beckett Bridge stands as a swan song to Ireland’s Celtic Tiger days –still rising resolutely against the pull of hard times, persevering with the grace native to this country’s symbol: the harp.
Yes, it’ll be a boon to commuters and further open the Docklands and IFSC to pedestrians, but as the first sculpture to greet the incoming Irish Sea, it’s a powerful statement. At night the bridge becomes an ivory scrimshaw against dark Dublin night, by day it lifts into the clouds and fades against the gray sky, locking sea and land and sky together in a beautiful arch.
Walking by it as it slowly came together was exciting, walking across it is purely electrifying.

I know that I’m no the only one who breathed a sigh of relief when they city finally added the Samuel Beckett Bridge.
The Liffey already has several bridges west of O’Connell, but the river lacks the means to cross on the east coast. People who live in the Docklands often have to go about their business in a roundabout way. For example, if you’re in Grand Canal Dock and you want to be on the north side, you’re screwed. You need to take a detour to the Sean O’Casey Bridge and loop back.
The Samuel Beckett Bridge will change everything and make life simplier. When the bridge is completed, it will have four traffic lanes with a foot and cycle path on either side. It will also be able to open up to let ships pass.
Designed by the internationally acclaimed Santiago Calatrava Valls, it is meant to look like a harp lying on its side. I think it looks more like a fish with long fins. In any case, the bridge is beautiful and I welcome the expansion of the city.