Dublin's Temple Bar

This view of Temple Bar drops you into Dublin's most photographed corner: cobblestones, crimson pub frontage, and a street that treats live music as a public utility. The quarter's lanes date to the 1600s; the party is contemporary and continuous.

Afternoons bring buskers and hen parties; evenings pack the pavement outside the pubs, pints in hand whatever the weather. Dublin rain has never once stopped this street. Trad sessions spill fiddle and bodhrán into the night air.

Best watching: Irish evenings from about 6 pm, weekends doubly so. On March 17th this live cam points at the centre of the St. Patrick's universe. Arrive early.