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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Despite its dead-centre location, the Powerscourt Townhouse Centre is a remarkably calm, quiet and elegant spot. With impressive plasterwork, exposed...

Looming over Grafton Street on the edge of St Stephen's Green, this overblown conservatory of a shopping centre makes up in convenience for what it lacks in...

A pleasingly labyrinthine layout gives this branch of the big UK chain a quirky appeal, and you could easily spend several hours in the small specialist...

You'll find plenty of interesting titles at this beguilingly quirky bookshop, where chandeliers hang from the ceiling and wing-backed armchairs face each...