TEMPLE BAR

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TEMPLE BAR RIVER LIFFEY
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Temple Bar
River Liffey
Molly Malone
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What Temple Bar is?

• Temple Bar (Barra an Teampaill in Irish) is an
  area on the south bank of the River Liffey in
  central Dublin. Unlike the areas surrounding it,
  Temple Bar has preserved its medieval street
  pattern, with many narrow cobbled streets. It is
  Dublin's cultural quarter and has a lively
  nightlife that is popular with tourists.
• Originally it was spelt as 'Temple Barr and was
  the site of the gardens and mansion of Sir
  William Temple, provost of Trinity in 1609

The area is the location of many Irish cultural
institutions, and After dark, it is a major
centre for nightlife
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History of Temple Bar

• Fishamble Street in Temple Bar was the location
  of the first performance of Handel's Messiah on
  13 April, 1742. An annual performance of the
  Messiah is held onthe same date at the same
  location.
• The republican revolutionary group, the Society
  of the United Irishmen, was formed at a meeting
  in a tavern in Eustace Street in 1791.
• During the 19th century, the area slowly declined
  in popularity, and in the 20th century, it
  suffered from urban decay, with many derelict
  buildings. Its unfashionability probably saved it
  from Dublin's property developers, who destroyed
  much of the city's historic architecture during
  the 1960s
• In 1991, the government set up a not-for-profit
  company called Temple Bar Properties to oversee
  the regeneration of the area as Dublin's cultural
  quarter.

Wall Of Fame
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Paul Brady
The Undertones
Rory Gallagher
U2
Luke Kelly
Dolores ORiordan
Sinead OConnor
Bob Geldof
Van Morrison
Shane MacGowan
Christy Moore
Phil Lynott
Irelands world renowned musical talent is being
acknowledged and celebrated in a permanent
outdoor photographic exhibition, situated in
Dublins Cultural Quarter, Temple Bar.
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River Liffey

• The Liffey (An Life in Irish) is a river, which
  flows through Dublin. The word Liphe or Life was
  the name of the plain through which the river
  ran.
• The proper name of the river was An Ruirthech,
  'the strong running.
• The River Liffey in Dublin city has been used for
  many centuries for trade, from the Viking
  beginnings of the city up to recent times.
• The River divides Dublin in two parts the
  Northside and the Southside.

Quotations
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Quotations about Liffey
"riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of
shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius
vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and
Environs. James Joyce - Finnegans Wake
A skiff, a crumpled throwaway, Elijah is coming,
rode lightly down the Liffey, under Loopline
Bridge, shooting the rapids where water chafed
around the bridgepiers, sailing eastward past
hulls and anchorchains, between the Custom House
old dock and Georges quay. James Joyce - Ulysses
That there, that's not me - I go where I please
- I walk through walls - I float down the
Liffey Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely

• "Somebody once said that 'Joyce has made of this
  river the Ganges of the literary world,' but
  sometimes the smell of the Ganges of the literary
  world is not all that literary.
• Brendan Behan, Confessions of an Irish Rebel

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Molly Malone

• In Dublin's fair city,where the girls are
  so pretty,I first set my eyes on sweet Molly
  Malone,As she wheeled her wheel-barrow,Through
  streets broad and narrow,Crying, "Cockles and
  mussels, alive alive oh!""Alive-a-live-oh,Alive
  -a-live-oh",Crying "Cockles and mussels, alive
  alive oh".She was a fishmonger,And sure 'twas
  no wonder,For so were her mother and father
  before,And they each wheeled their
  barrow,Through streets broad and narrow,Crying,
  "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh!"She died
  of a fever,And no one could save her,And that
  was the end of sweet Molly Malone.Now her ghost
  wheels her barrow,Through streets broad and
  narrow,Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive,
  alive oh!"

The song tells the tale of a beautiful fishmonger
who plied her trade on the streets of Dublin, but
died young, of a fever, and has acquired the
status of an Irish anthem Molly is commemorated
in a statue designed by Jeanne Rynhart, placed at
the bottom of Grafton Street in Dublin, erected
to celebrate the city's first millennium in 1987