Mellows Bridge () is a road bridge spanning the River Liffey, in Dublin, Ireland and joining Queen Street and Arran Quay to the south quays and Bridgefoot Street.
History
Arran bridge
In 1683, a stone bridge called Arran Bridge or Arons Bridge was built in a location between the upstream Bloody Bridge (now Rory O'More Bridge) and the downstream Bridge of Dublin (now Father Mathew Bridge). Construction was funded by landowner William Ellis, and Dublin Corporation. It was named after Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Arran, second son of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond. From a drawing made by Francis Place in 1699, it appears to have been a four-span stone arched bridge.
It was also known as Bridewell Bridge
Queens bridge
thumb|Illustration of the bridge (top) from circa 1780.
Designed by Charles Vallancey, a military engineer, a replacement bridge on the same site was built between 1764 and 1768 as a three elliptical arch stone bridge with a total span of 42 m, and named Queens Bridge after Charlotte of Mecklenburg, queen consort of George III.
Queen Maeve Bridge
The bridge was renamed for the legendary Queen Maeve at a meeting of the Municipal Council on 2 January 1922.
Liam Mellows bridge
It was renamed again in 1942 to its current name, after Lieutenant General Liam Mellows Irish Republican army who was executed during the Irish Civil War.