If you want to experience the lively nightlife and bar culture, the TEMPLE BAR on the south bank of the Liffey River in Dublin city centre is not to be missed, retaining the medieval street pattern, with narrow cobbled streets being its biggest feature. The Temple Bar represents Dublin’s oldest and most iconic bar area, and some bistros are even centuries old. This is the paradise of night owls, and because of bar culture, Dublin has been named the world's top ten nightlife places, Irish poet James Joyce said, "miss the bar, you miss Dublin."