Make Mine a Double

posted by Hilary on Mar 5

Well I wouldn’t be giving Dublin true credit without mentioning Temple bar as a main attraction of nightlife in Dublin. Yes there are more bars per square mile etc but to anyone who has been you will know that temple bar isn’t made up Weather spoons and characterless pubs that you can find in many city centres. Temple Bar got its name from the Temple family, who lived in the area in the 17th century; Sir William Temple, and the earliest historical reference to the name Temple Bar is on a 1673 map. The area took a massive nose dive in popularity, with many derelict buildings in the 1950’s and nasty Dublin’s property developers, who destroyed much of the city’s historic architecture during the 1960s In the 1980s, the state-owned transport company proposed to buy-up and demolish property in the area and build a bus terminus in its place!! My god can you believe it!!!! Protestors stepped in and for once got the bus station project squashed!!, and the Taoiseach Charles Haughey and, 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. For once the ‘little person’ won out and the rest is history.

Well back to cocktails, I discovered quite a few!!!
First being in Gallagher’s Boxty House 20/21 Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland

Just a couple to sample
Gallagher’s Shamrock
Bailey’s,
Whiskey,
Crème de Menthe
Fresh Cream,
Shaken together over ice……….. Yum Yum

Boxty Blush
Vodka
Peach Schnapps
Cranberry Juice

Everybody’s Irish
Whiskey,
Tia Maria
Fresh Cream,
Shaken together over ice