This worthy independent bookshop has been going for decades and it continues to attract discerning punters, visiting writers and resident academics with its notable stock of...

Plush, elegant and painfully fashionable, BTs is popular with travelling celebs, rich kids and the local glitterati. There are more designer labels than you could shake a stick...

Many a pleasant afternoon can be spent thumbing through the dusty, yellow-paged gems that fill the shelves of this charming shop. It's not cheap, but there's an admirable pick...

Not only is it impressive to look at (the building was formerly a John Rennie-designed tobacco warehouse) but this sleek new shopping centre is perfectly suited to Docklands'...

Despite an auspicious beginning (it was one of the first purpose-built department stores in the world when it was founded in 1853), Clery & Co has long since been overtaken by...

Restored to its original location on Essex Street (after a temporary spell across the river in Bloom Lane), this political bookshop takes its name from James Connolly,...

Fifteen minutes outside the city centre is the goliath of Dublin shopping malls, the Dundrum Town Centre. This pristine place is an unashamed temple to consumerism and gets...

Always busy, this long-established shop won't win any prizes for atmosphere, but it has a good selection of books over four floors.

A gem of a space in the heart of Temple Bar. This gallery's permanent collection of 20th-century Irish artworks is run in conjunction with monthly exhibitions by Irish and...

Set near the National Art Gallery, Greene's is now one of Dublin's bookish landmarks. An impressive number of literary giants have walked through its doors over the years,...

With wall-to-wall books over three tightly packed floors, Hodges Figgis tends to have a good selection of special offers on throughout the year, as well as an extensive regular...

A decent chain with an especially strong selection of Irish fiction, Hughes & Hughes also keeps its eye in with smaller sections on history, cookery and self-help. This branch...

There was a time when the ILAC Centre was a byword for urban tawdriness, devoid of any charm, bereft of shops you'd actually want to set foot in. But those days are over....

With the kind of relentess mall lighting that makes you feel as if you are suspended in a permanent lightning flash, this starkly modern shopping centre may not be the most...