The Temple Bar pub sits on the site of the mansion built by Sir William Temple, who arrived in Ireland in 1599 and became provost of Trinity College. His family expanded their grounds over the following decades, reclaiming much of the surrounding land from the Liffey. The district takes their name.

The pub has been here since at least 1840, though it claims origins in the 1690s. Either way, it is now roughly ten times the size of the original building, having expanded to fill nearly the entire corner. At nearly any hour, people are outside taking photographs. A 24-hour webcam above the pharmacy across the road captures an endless procession of visitors mid-selfie.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours use the pub as a pivot between Temple Bar's histories: the district's origins as a wealthy enclave, its decline into dereliction, and its reinvention as Dublin's cultural quarter in the 1990s.