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Ha'penny Bridge and River Liffey
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The Ha’penny Bridge.
Built in 1816 as the Wellington Bridge the Ha’penny Bridge is a hugely popular crossing of the river Liffey, and has become the virtual symbol of the city. Its more common name derives from the toll that was charged until abolished in 1919. The Millennium Boardwalk can be accessed from the north side of the bridge.
The bridge spans the Liffey of James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake giving his final greeting to the Dublin of his birth. It took Joyce almost a third of his life to write the book, which was meant to be his masterpiece. Unfortunately when it was published in 1939, it was regarded by the great majority of the reading public as being incomprehensible, over the years it has come to be regarded as a great comic novel. Dublin standing for all the cities, and the Liffey, representing the rivers of the world.
‘I laid down before the trotters to my eblanite my stony battered waggonways, my nordsoud circulums, my eastmoreland and westlandmore, running boullowards and syddenly parading. (Stoneybatter, North and South Circular Roads, Eastmoreland Street,