Continued from yesterday, we were lucky again to be invited to an event sponsored by the Irish Fulbright Commission for the showcase of Fulbright artists, including our professor! This was at The Ark in Temple Bar area. This area has many varieties of different cultures, and this made me wonder how this area became to be called Temple Bar.
Temple Bar (Irish: Barra an Teampaill) is an area on the south bank of the River Liffey in central Dublin, Ireland. It shows medieval street pattern with narrow and cobbled streets. It is where different cultures stand and is known for lively nightlife by the tourists and the locals. The area is almost shaped like a rectangle that is bordered by the Liffey to the North, Fishamble Street and Dublin Castle to the West, and by Trinity College Dublin. Some 800 years after the Vikings have settled, the English diplomat and provost of Trinity College, Sir William Temple, had his residence and gardens here in the early 17th century. By the end of the 17th century the area had acquired the name, and it still goes by it today, Temple Bar. The arrival of a new custom's house in 1707 brought money and activities into the once countrified and rural-like area. Warehouses showed up every block, taverns, and theaters followed up the trend. The world's favorite oratorio and chorus, Hallelujah from Handel's Messiah, had its world premiere in Temple Bar in 1742 in Neals' Music Hall.
http://www.dublin.info/temple-bar/ http://www.templebar.ie/about/history
Temple Bar (Irish: Barra an Teampaill) is an area on the south bank of the River Liffey in central Dublin, Ireland. It shows medieval street pattern with narrow and cobbled streets. It is where different cultures stand and is known for lively nightlife by the tourists and the locals. The area is almost shaped like a rectangle that is bordered by the Liffey to the North, Fishamble Street and Dublin Castle to the West, and by Trinity College Dublin. Some 800 years after the Vikings have settled, the English diplomat and provost of Trinity College, Sir William Temple, had his residence and gardens here in the early 17th century. By the end of the 17th century the area had acquired the name, and it still goes by it today, Temple Bar. The arrival of a new custom's house in 1707 brought money and activities into the once countrified and rural-like area. Warehouses showed up every block, taverns, and theaters followed up the trend. The world's favorite oratorio and chorus, Hallelujah from Handel's Messiah, had its world premiere in Temple Bar in 1742 in Neals' Music Hall.
http://www.dublin.info/temple-bar/ http://www.templebar.ie/about/history