Dublin Shopping

Home of popular fashion boutiques and department store Brown Thomas – with its large cosmetics hall and two floors of fashions – Grafton Street is the hub of the city’s upmarket shops.

This beautiful 18th-century townhouse building just behind Grafton Street, houses an interesting mix of boutiques, galleries, antique and jewelry shops, the Design Centre for original fashion, as well as some buzzing restaurants and cafés.

This department store on O’Connell Street is one of Dublin’s classics, containing everything from clothes, shoes, cosmetics and accessories to household goods, a nail salon and a café.

Shopping on Henry Street is less pricey than on Grafton Street, thanks to more discount fashion retailers – although, like Grafton Street, it has ubiquitous retail staples like Boots, Oasis, Warehouse, and The Body Shop. Arnotts is great department store with everything from fashion and cosmetics to household items and there are also shopping centers such as the Jervis Centre and the more do

Georges Street arcade has an interesting mix of bohemian fashions, books, CDs and jewelery; Cow’s Lane market in Temple Bar (Saturdays) has a good mix of eclectic fashion stalls; and once-weekly farmers markets are a new phenomenon around towns and villages in the suburbs (www.irishfarmersmarkets.ie).