South Dublin City Centre Shopping
Grafton Street
Grafton
Street, located between Trinity College and St Stephen's Green is the more smart
shopping area with fashionable stores such as Brown Thomas, the department store
catering for many designer showcases, both foreign and local. Dublin's leading
and most exclusive jewellers, Weirs, is also here, as well as the most popular
of the famous Bewley's Cafés. The
nearby
Powerscourt Townhouse (located on
South William Street) one of the nicer, albeit small, shopping centres in the
city. The southside's largest and one of the city's best shopping centres, the
St. Stephen's Green Shopping Centre is located
at the top south end) of Grafton Street. Some of the city's main bookshops are just
around the corner on Dawson Street.
Georges Street/Camden Street
Georges Street, or South Great Georges Street to give it its full name, is home
to the superb Georges Street Arcade, a red-bricked indoor market of stalls and
stores offering everything from unusual fruits and foreign produce to second
hand clothes, memorabilia, fortune telling and body piercing books and more.
Behind the Arcade, near the Powerscourt Townhouse is the Castlemarket area,
with numerous clothes and shoe shops and some fine food shops and restaurants.
Outside, the street has a number of home furnishing shops, trendy bars, music
and art shops.
Georges Street continues south, through Aungier Street, to Camden Street, which
features a daily outdoor food market and is crammed with little food, craft
and gift shops.
Nassau Street/Trinity College
Running the axis of the south side of Trinity College, Nassau Street is the
main area for quality Irish design, including woollens and tweeds (both traditional
and modern designer styles) and also ceramics and glassware.
For those of Irish ancestery are a number of heraldic shops so along with the
designer shops Nassau Street is the ideal place for Irish gifts and souvenirs.
The main bookstores are also nearby, with Eason's
on the corner of Nassau Street and Dawson Street and also Hodges
Figgis and Waterstones on Dawson
Street.
Temple
Bar
Dublin's cultural heart Temple Bar. It became this in the late 1980s / early
1990s and today it is packed with small shops associated with 
crafts,
art, clothes and music, as well as Pubs and Bars of course.
Christchurch
The oldest area of Dublin, The Liberties, is bordered on the east by Christchurch
and St Patrick's Cathedral and on the south by the River Liffey. The area is
home to most of Dublin's antiques shops and also hosts a number of crafts and
gift shops.
A short stroll over the River Liffey will take you to the North Side of Dublin
City Centre.
North Dublin City-Centre Shopping
Henry Street / O'Connell Street
Henry Street has department stores such as the popular Arnotts,
and an assortment of popular clothing and footwear stores. The ILAC
Shopping Centre, the newer Jervis Street
Shopping Centre are both here. The well-known outdoor food market of Moore
Street is always full of bargains.
To the west via Mary Street is the Capel Street area with a number of home interiors,
DIY shops, tool supplies and furniture shops.
The nearby O'Connell Street, Dublin's main thoroughfare, is home to the excellent
Clery's Department Store and Eason's
Booksellers as well as several other shops but not the main shopping area
by any means.
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