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    The James Joyce Bridge across the Liffey River in Dublin was designed by Santiago Calatrava Valls (1951--), a Spanish architect also responsible for the Woman Bridge in Buenos Aires, the April 2007 Bridge of the Month in the Archives.  It is a single span, 131 foot long arch bridge completed in 2003 and named, of course, for the great Irish writer.  High Beam Encyclopedia reports it as "one of the last works of Belfast's Harland and Wolff, makers of the Titanic." It connects Ellis Quay to Usher's Island; on the latter was the house in which Joyce's The Dead was set.  The High Beam article is interesting in drawing parallels between the engineering and its symbolism in relation to Joyce's Ulysses.