The Talbot Memorial Bridge () is a road
bridge
A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually somethi ...
spanning the
River Liffey
The River Liffey (Irish: ''An Life'', historically ''An Ruirthe(a)ch'') is a river in eastern Ireland that ultimately flows through the centre of Dublin to its mouth within Dublin Bay. Its major tributaries include the River Dodder, the River ...
in
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...
, Ireland.
Completed in 1978, it is 22 metres (72 feet) wide, and was designed by ''De Leuw, Chadwick and O’hEocha Consulting Engineers''.
The bridge marks the furthest point up to the Liffey to which tall ships may travel, as all bridges downriver of it are either
swingbridges or
bascule.
The bridge links Memorial Road (and
Custom House Quay) on the north bank of the river to Moss Street (and
City Quay) on the south bank. Memorial Road was named in commemoration of those members of the Dublin Brigade who died during the
Irish War of Independence
The Irish War of Independence () or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-mil ...
- notably those who died in a raid on the nearby Custom House. The "Talbot" reference in the bridge's name is in remembrance of
Matt Talbot
Matt Talbot (2 May 1856 – 7 June 1925) was an Irish ascetic revered by many Catholics for his piety, charity and mortification of the flesh.
Talbot was a manual labourer. Though he lived alone for most of his life, Talbot did live with hi ...
. Talbot was a
temperance
Temperance may refer to:
Moderation
*Temperance movement, movement to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed
*Temperance (virtue), habitual moderation in the indulgence of a natural appetite or passion
Culture
*Temperance (group), Canadian danc ...
campaigner from Dublin's
Northside
Northside or North Side may refer to:
Music
* Northside (band), a musical group from Manchester, England
* NorthSide, an American record label
* NorthSide Festival (Denmark), a music festival in Aarhus, Denmark
* "Norf Norf", a 2015 song by Vinc ...
, a
statue
A statue is a free-standing sculpture in which the realistic, full-length figures of persons or animals are carved or cast in a durable material such as wood, metal or stone. Typical statues are life-sized or close to life-size; a sculpture t ...
of whom stands at the south end of the bridge.
References
External links
New Bridge Over The Liffey— 11 December 1976 news report from RTÉ archives
Bridges in Dublin (city)
Bridges completed in 1978
Monuments and memorials in Ireland
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