Temple Bar

Temple Bar is a historic riverside quarter of Dublin on the south bank of the Liffey, occupying a warren of narrow medieval streets that predate the city's grand Georgian avenues. Named after a family who owned land here, it grew as a district of merchants, workshops and later printing houses. Threatened with demolition for a bus depot in the 1980s, it was instead promoted as a cultural quarter and now hums with pubs, galleries, live music and weekend markets. Cobbled lanes and old warehouses house arts centres and studios.