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Temple Bar is an area on the south bank of the River Liffey in central Dublin, Ireland. The area is bounded by the Liffey to the north, Dame Street to the south, Westmoreland Street to the east and Fishamble Street to the west. Unlike other parts of Dublin's city centre, it is promoted as Dublin's cultural quarter and has a lively nightlife that is popular with tourists. Popular venues include The Palace Bar, The Temple Bar Pub, Oliver St.John Gogarty's and The Auld Dubliner (fine boys bar). Temple Bar is in the postcode Dublin 2 (D2), and has an estimated population of 3,000. ==History== The historic name of the district was not Temple Bar but St. Andrews Parish. It was a suburb of medieval (Anglo-Norman) Dublin, located outside the city walls, but it fell into disuse beginning in the 14th century because the land was exposed to attacks by the native Irish. The land was redeveloped again in the 17th century, to create gardens for the houses of wealthy English families. Many sources agree that Temple Bar Street got its name from the Temple family, and specifically Sir William Temple (provost of Trinity College from 1609-1627), whose house and gardens were located there in the early 17th century. However, given the existence of a storied district of the same name in London, it seems that the new Temple Bar street of Dublin must have been a nod to its older and more famous cousin. Fishamble Street near 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 on the same date at the same location. A republican revolutionary group, the Society of the United Irishmen, was formed at a meeting in a tavern in Eustace Street in 1791. In the 18th century it was the centre of prostitution in Dublin.〔(''Striapacha Tri Chead Bliain Duailcis (Prostitutes: Three Hundred Years of Vice)'' Niamh O’Reilly, J Irish Studies )〕 During the 19th century, the area slowly declined in popularity, and in the 20th century, it suffered from urban decay, with many derelict buildings. In the 1980s, the state-owned transport company Córas Iompair Éireann proposed to buy up and demolish property in the area and build a bus terminus in its place. While that was in the planning stages, the purchased buildings were let out at low rents, which attracted small shops, artists and galleries to the area. Protests by An Taisce, residents and traders led to the cancellation of the bus station project, and then Taoiseach Charles Haughey was responsible for securing funding,〔(Obituary Charles Haughey ), ''The Independent'' 14 June 2006〕 and, 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.〔Temple Bar Framework Plan - Dublin Corporation(1991)〕 In 1999, "Stag Parties" and "Hen Nights" were supposedly banned (or discouraged) from Temple Bar, mainly due to drunken loutish behaviour, although this seems to have lapsed.〔(Bar Stag Ban Sends Revellers To London- ''Sunday Mirror'', January 3, 1999 )〕 However, noise and anti-social behaviour usually fueled by excessive alcohol consumption remain a problem at night.〔(Nightmare in a city that never sleeps - ''Irish Times'', September 9, 2008 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Temple Bar, Dublin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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