Shops in Dublin generally open from 09.00 – 18.00, Monday – Saturdays with late opening on Thursdays until 20.00.
In the city centre many shops open on Sundays from 12.00 until 18.00 and some of the larger Shopping Centres open late during the week.

SHOPPING AREAS

Shopping in Dublin is focused on the two main pedestrianised shopping streets of Grafton Street/Stephen's Green on the southside centre and Henry Street on the northside and their surrounding streets. The two streets are just either side of the river, a few minutes walk apart.

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. Dublin's leading and most exclusive jewellers, Weirs, is also here, as well as the most popular of the famous Bewley's Cafés.

Here you will also find a couple of shopping centres, the smaller Powerscourt Townhouse located on South William Street and also one of the city's best shopping centres, St.Stephen's Green Shopping Centre situated at the top South end of Grafton Street. A couple of the city's main book shops are just around the corner on Dawson Street.

GEORGE STREET / CAMDEN STREET
South Great Georges Street 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
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 bookshops are nearby, with Easons on the corner of Naussau and Dawson Street with Hodges Figgis and Waterstones also on Dawson Street.

TEMPLE BAR
Dublin's cultural heart Temple Bar. Today it is packed with small shops associated with crafts, arts, clothes and music as well as many as well as Pubs and Bars of course.

CHRISTCHURCH
Christchurch is 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 CONNNELL STREET

Henry Street has the popular department store, Arnotts aswell as the ILAC shopping centre and the newer Jervis Street shopping centre. The well-known outdoor food market of Moore Street is always full of bargains.

The nearby O'Connell Street, Dublin's main thoroughfare, is home to the excellent Clery's Department Store and Eason's booksellers.