Seán O'Casey Bridge () is a pedestrian swingbridge spanning the

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, Ireland, joining City Quay in the Grand Canal Docks area to North Wall Quay and the IFSC. Designed by architect Cyril O'Neill and O'Connor Sutton Cronin Consulting Engineers (for which they won an Institution of Structural Engineers Award for Pedestrian Bridges in 2006), the bridge was built in 2005 as part of a large-scale urban renewal scheme under the

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to link the north and south quays and rejuvenate both. The swing bridge spans approximately 100 metres and has two balanced cantilever arms that swing open to permit boats to pass up river. Around 2010 the

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that operates the

swing bridge A swing bridge (or swing span bridge) is a movable bridge that has as its primary structural support a vertical locating pin and support ring, usually at or near to its center of gravity, about which the swing span (turning span) can then pi ...

was misplaced, and the bridge was unable to be opened until the control system was reprogrammed in 2014. The bridge was opened by

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in July 2005. It is named after the playwright and

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member

Seán O'Casey Seán O'Casey ( ga, Seán Ó Cathasaigh ; born John Casey; 30 March 1880 – 18 September 1964) was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes. ...

(1880–1964) who lived in the North Wall area of the city.

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