The Temple Bar in Temple Bar
Temple Bar Pub
Temple Bar Neighborhood
Dublin, Ireland
09-18-25
Photographed a little after 8:00AM on a Thursday on my first full day in Ireland. The Temple Bar neighborhood in Dublin, south of the River Liffey, is a prime tourist destination in the evenings, filled with pubs and lively with music. The morning is the best time to be able to photograph the architecture, as in most places, and I'm always going to be found with my camera in these areas in the morning before people start to fill the streets.
The red pub in the middle of this extremely wide angle view of the corner is the Temple Bar Pub, established in 1840. The neighborhood dates back to the age of the Vikings, around 795 AD!
Two things which stood out for me relating to architecture when in Ireland were the multi colored storefronts in almost every small village I visited, and the practice of placing pots of flowers around the top edges of the pub facades on buildings, especially in Dublin, as shown here. Very festive and colorful. Both these practices are quite new in terms of history, especially in a place like Ireland, which has a long long history. In the relatively recent year of 1958, Ireland began to have a "Tidy Towns Competition" with the most tidy town winning. Villages and towns began painting the buildings in brilliant colors, and the practice of hanging flowers began. It got really competitive around the early 1980s.
Now some Irish media reports the flowers as a "blight." However I found the effect as beautiful and quite photogenic. Something I've never seen anywhere else.
The pubs weren't open when I photographed the Temple Bar neighborhood in the morning. Later in the day I returned, and had a pint of Guinness Zero (no alcohol) beer in another pub in the Temple Bar neighborhood.
The Temple Bar in Temple Bar
Temple Bar Pub
Temple Bar Neighborhood
Dublin, Ireland
09-18-25
Photographed a little after 8:00AM on a Thursday on my first full day in Ireland. The Temple Bar neighborhood in Dublin, south of the River Liffey, is a prime tourist destination in the evenings, filled with pubs and lively with music. The morning is the best time to be able to photograph the architecture, as in most places, and I'm always going to be found with my camera in these areas in the morning before people start to fill the streets.
The red pub in the middle of this extremely wide angle view of the corner is the Temple Bar Pub, established in 1840. The neighborhood dates back to the age of the Vikings, around 795 AD!
Two things which stood out for me relating to architecture when in Ireland were the multi colored storefronts in almost every small village I visited, and the practice of placing pots of flowers around the top edges of the pub facades on buildings, especially in Dublin, as shown here. Very festive and colorful. Both these practices are quite new in terms of history, especially in a place like Ireland, which has a long long history. In the relatively recent year of 1958, Ireland began to have a "Tidy Towns Competition" with the most tidy town winning. Villages and towns began painting the buildings in brilliant colors, and the practice of hanging flowers began. It got really competitive around the early 1980s.
Now some Irish media reports the flowers as a "blight." However I found the effect as beautiful and quite photogenic. Something I've never seen anywhere else.
The pubs weren't open when I photographed the Temple Bar neighborhood in the morning. Later in the day I returned, and had a pint of Guinness Zero (no alcohol) beer in another pub in the Temple Bar neighborhood.