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Question

Anyone know any good Temple Bar hotels for recommendations -nice ones, taking boyf for his bday. Anyone know how far Temple bar is from airport and how far Malahide castle is from temple bar?

Thanks

Answer 1

Temple Bar to Malahide Castle, well worth the trip!  Lets see, take the dart, Connolly station, possibly Pearce, to Howth junction , there you will be able to take a train to Malahide Village proper.  The castle is about a twenty minute walk form the train station. The last 10 minutes of the walk is through the castle woods, you will love it!

Save an hour each way,epically if you stop for tea in Malahide like I did....

Temple bar from the airport, maybe 25 minutes by taxi.

Answer 2

Temple Bar (Irish: Barra an Teampaill) is an area on the south bank of the River Liffey in central Dublin, Ireland. 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. Temple Bar is in the postcode Dublin 2 (D2), and 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. It probably got its name from the Temple family, who lived in the area in the 17th century. Sir William Temple, provost of Trinity College Dublin in 1609, had his house and gardens in the area. Alternatively, it could have been named in imitation of the Temple Bar in London. However it got its name, the earliest historical reference to the name Temple Bar is on a 1673 map.

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 on the 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.



Temple BarDuring 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 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 this 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, 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.

has an estimated population of 3,000The area is the location of many Irish cultural institutions, including the Irish Photography Centre (incorporating the Dublin Institute of Photography, the National Photographic Archives and the Gallery of Photography), the Ark Children's Cultural Centre, the Irish Film Institute, incorporating the Irish film archive, the Temple Bar Music Centre, the Arthouse Multimedia Centre, Temple Bar Gallery and Studio, the Project Arts Centre, the Gaiety School of Acting, the Irish Stock Exchange and the Central Bank of Ireland.

After dark, the area is a major centre for nightlife, with many tourist-focused nightclubs, restaurants and bars. Pubs in the area include The Porterhouse, the Oliver St. John Gogarty, the Turk's Head, the Temple Bar, Isolde's Tower, the Quays Bar, the MEZZ, the Foggy Dew and Eamonn Doran's, as well as the newly flourishing Bayfire. Two new squares have been created in recent years — Meetinghouse Square and Temple Bar Square. Meetinghouse Square has been used for outdoor film screenings in the summer months. Since summer 2004, Meetinghouse Square is also home to the Speaker's Square project, which is similar to Speakers' Corner in London.

Meetinghouse Square is home to the Temple Bar Food Market every Saturday. The Cow's Lane Market is a fashion and design market which takes place on Cow's Lane every Saturday. The Temple Bar Book Market is held on Saturdays and Sundays in Temple Bar Square.

In July 2005, visiting American singer Aimee Mann described her shock at encountering "overflowing pubs, drunks, urine stains and pools of vomit". This and other increasingly adverse coverage has led to the introduction in October 2005 of a "Play Nice" campaign to help the area recover its bohemian image.

Answer 3

hi

http://www.dublintourist.com/

the above will get  you a list of hotels in dublin, city centre hotels will be in Dublin 1 or 2, hope that helps, Temple bar is in Dublin 2, on the southside of the river.  Blooms hotel is a nice very central hotel.

The airport is on the outskirts of the northside of Dublin, its about 12 miles from the city centre, a taxi could cost about €30, Malahide castle is nearer the airport, bit if your staying in the city then you can get the DART (local train for Dublin) out to Malahide, its not a place I've been to myself, but I heard its lovely.  Thats what happens when you live in a place, never bother to go visit all these places.

Have a great time

Answer 4

In Dublin fair city were the girls are so pretty,

I first set my eyes on sweet molly malone ,  

She wheel her wheelbarrow,

Through streets broad and narrow,

Selling cockles and muscles alive alive oh.

Answer 5

Temple Bar hotels will be unnecessarily expensive.

It's not an 'old' part of Dublin, It is a manufactured tourist trap with wildly over-priced restaurants, bars and accommodation.  It is loud and noisy at night.

If you would like to spend some money but not a fortune, two nice hotels are the Morrison and Brooks - neither in Temple Bar, but close to it and the 'sights'.

http://www.morrisonhotel.ie/

http://www.brookshotel.ie/

Temple Bar is in the city centre, so distance-wise it's about 10km from the airport. This can be as short as a 20 minute car ride away, or at rush hour could take almost an hour on public transport.

Malahide Castle is not near the train station in Malahide. To get to it, you would have to get the 42 bus from Lower Abbey Street, which is the other side of the river, about 10 minutes walk from Temple Bar.

Answer 6

The Blooms hotel in temple bar is nice and not to dear i stayed there myself, and its centrally located. Temple bar is about 40 mins drive from the airport thats including traffice so could be quicker. Malahide castle is pretty much the same.

Answer 7

Malahide Castle is at least 40 minutes from temple bar. You can do it as part of a day tour of Dublin though. Blooms Hotel, Oliver St John Gogarty, The Clarence Hotel, Fitzsimons Hotel. Temple Bar is about an hour from airport by bus. The 747 goes to Aston Quay 5 minutes from Temple Bar. Look at these websites for accommodation:

www.ireland.ie

www.visitdublin.com

Answer 8

The Oliver St. John Gogarty pub & restaurant right in the heart of Temple Bar also has accommodation. Depending on time of day & traffic Temple Bar is approx 1/2 hr from the Airport. If you don't want to get a taxi (these can be expensive in Dublin) when you arrive in Dublin just walk outside the main door & turn left & take either the aircoach which drops at all major hotels in Dublin or the no. 16a bus which leaves you in Dame St. just a stones throw from Temple Bar. Malahide Castle is closer to the Airport than it is to Temple Bar, but you can take a 'coastal tour' bus which goes to Malahide from the city centre, I think the nearest point for you to get this bus would be on College Green, about 5 minutes walk from Temple Bar. Enjoy everything our wonderful city has to offer !!!!!

Answer 9

hi hi... i can say.. just few words as... Dublin is a dreaming place and... the Malahide castle is one of the most fantastic things i have ever visited... its picture follows me ( as a label in internet) and.. had painted it 4 times.. well..i have kind of passion for Ireland... and.. what a nice people.. wowowow... by the way.. I am bresilien...

Answer 10

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