Samuel Beckett Bridge opened in Dublin

this is so annoying, why must the dublin city council contintually grant planning permission or undertake public projects that are in no way compatible with the imediate landscape - e.g. the stupid spoire in the city venter, its a giant bloody sewing needle stuck in the ground, now this monstrosity of a bridge ruining the character of a beautiful charming city.

Samuel Beckett was undoubtedly of Huguenot descent and must have stayed close to it as he was a still a Protestant,The Huguenots were French or to be more accurate Flemish and a German Protestants who fled Continental persecution in the 17th century, Many of them ended up in Dublin's South Side,and the East end of London I have in the past worked with many of their descendants, Urell is a name I worked with and is a name that is of Huguenot Ancestry although many have intermarried and lost their original names and religion. There is one thing that still marks them and it is their high level of intelligence and matter of fact attitude. It is therefore not surprising that a talent like Beckett came out of this people. But I think no one can deny Beckett was Dublin as much as was Joyce So what wonderful and beautiful landmarks are the Santiago Calatrava Spanish designed Joyce and Beckett Bridges.

I recently downloaded a BBC radio production of a Samuel Beckett play (All That Fall BBC 1957) [http://www.radioarchive.cc/index.php] where the presenter introduced the play by a great French/Irish Author I think at least Irish/French would have been More appropriate since Beckett was in fact born in Foxrock Dublin.It really is amazing how biased the British were as recent as 1957.