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Temple Bar, Dublin and the dangers of overtourism. We all like good craic but should we draw a line?
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Many of those stag and hen parties have since been discouraged, but otherwise tourism still flourishes here and the pubs and restaurants do very well. There are of course big benefits to tourism in any city, but sometimes things can get a bit out of hand. I think that was the reasoning behind stopping the stag and hen parties. As we through Temple Bar I think we’ll see some of the positive and negative aspects of tourism.
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There’s a great range of bars and restaurants here, from the big franchises like this Hard Rock café, to smaller and more traditional pubs. I can’t imagine why anyone would come to Dublin and then go to a Hard Rock Café? But each to their own.
This whole area results from a massive regeneration programme in the 90s and in the decades before that these properties were run down or abandoned, at one point they were all going to be knocked down to make way for a big bus station.
Now the description of this film refers to the best and worst of Irish tourism and just coming up we’ll see an example of the latter. Just on the left hand side there, the building in green is the Oliver St John Gogarty pub. The white horse drawn carriages outside it I’m supposing is some sort of tourist gimmick. But in reality these carriages have nothing to do with Ireland, perhaps someone is tapping into some fantasy that people have outside Ireland about how Dubliners get about. The reality is that it’s more likely to be on the Luas tram than in a horse and cart – let alone a white horse and cart! But more generally this pub in particular – there are others – is tarted up in a way that turns the area into a huge green Disneyland. Anyway, the tourists certainly fall for it, it does a roaring trade. As does the striking red painted Auld Dubliner beside it.
But the positive aspect of tourism is of course how all these restaurants accommodate so many people from all over the world night after night.
And then we can see here a taste of genuine old Temple Bar – Rory’s Fishing Tackle shop. You have to wonder how that place has survived in amongst the nightlife of Temple Bar? There are so many bars here, and many of them with live Irish music too and even Irish dancing. But there’s one particular bar that always catches my eye when I walk along here and that’s the Quays. Just look at its fantastic Victorian tiled façade. An exterior perhaps to rival the Crown in Belfast? There’s often also buskers in the street, as in this case where we see a piper doing his thing. These are Scottish Bagpipes I think rather than the Irish pipes.
There’s all kinds of shops in Temple Bar too, it’s not all pubs and restaurants. There are some lovely painted buildings like the pub The Temple Bar – makes you just want to go inside! The pub, the Norseman, refers to the Viking heritage that this part of Dublin has. This is one of the oldest parts of the city with a long and interesting History. And just on the other side of the street here we can see a colourful mural which tells us something about Temple Bars importance as a cultural hub. There are many important cultural organisations based in this part of town.
These include the Temple Bar Gallery and studios, the Irish Photography Centre, The Ark (a children’s cultural centre), the Irish Film Institute, an arthouse multimedia centre called the Button Factory, The Project Arts Centre, The Gaiety School of acting and the Contemporary Music Centre.
I should say that it’s not just this main street, but also the side streets that have shops, bars and restaurants. And restaurants of every type too.
We pass the back of the Clarence hotel now, a hotel that is, or at least was owned by the lads from U2. So who knows if you go for a drink in there you might meet one of them. It’s a grand building as well, with a very nice Octagon bar inside.