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Published: May 16, 2009 at 12:05 AM

DUBLIN, Ireland, May 16 (UPI) -- A bridge named after the Irish minimalist playwright Samuel Beckett was moved into place this week in Dublin on the third attempt.

Final installation is more than a week away, The Irish Times reported. The bridge, in the meantime, remains anchored on the south side of the River Liffey.

The Beckett bridge is expected to open to traffic next year.

The bridge, almost 400 feet long and 150 feet high, was built in the Netherlands by a Dutch-Irish consortium. It traveled from Rotterdam to Dublin by barge.

The bridge was designed by Santiago Calatrava, whose first bridge in the capital, which opened in 2003, was named after James Joyce, author of "Finnegan's Wake" and "Ulysses."

Calatrava designed the Beckett to look something like an Irish harp on its side.

Beckett, best known for plays like "Waiting for Godot" and "Krapp's Last Tape," grew up in a Dublin suburb and attended and taught at Trinity College. From the late 1930s to his death in 1989, he spent his life in France, mostly in a village in Provence.

Topics: Samuel Beckett, Santiago Calatrava
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