Streets and Shopping

Dublin is famous for its variety of shops and shopping streets.   We will tell you about some of the best places to shop.  O’Connell St. is the oldest street  in the city centre.   It is north of the River Liffey.  Grafton St.  is the most famous shopping street south of the river.    Henry St. is one of the best shopping streets.  Henry St. has lots of cool shops.  

O'Connell St. Bridge

Grafton St.

Moore St. is a street traders’ street and is off Henry St. Moore St. is very interesting to other visitors.  In Moore St. there are lots of traders selling fruit and vegetables and fish.  

The Ilac is a shopping centre.  It has lots of clothes shops but is not very entertaining.  The entrance of  the Jervis shopping centre is on Henry St. too.  Jervis is one of the newest  shopping centres in the city centre.  It is very clean.   At the top of Grafton Street there is a big shopping  centre  called  St  Stephens Green shopping  centre.  In the shopping centre there are fashion shops, gift shops, beauty shops, book shops and restaurants. There are 90 shops in the shopping centre.  All round the outside of the centre is glass.  It is the biggest and brightest shopping centre in town.  

Music Stores

There are lots of music stores in Dublin.  Our favourites are HMV and Virgin.  HMV has loads of types of music: rock and roll, classical, romantic, ancient, jazz and hip-hop.  HMV also sells videos.  HMV has been in Dublin a long time.  You can also buy concert tickets at HMV. Virgin sells the same type of music as HMV but, Virgin is a bigger success.  The only difference between HMV and Virgin is  that Virgin gets all the number 1 hits first.  Virgin also sells Playstation  games and Nintendo games. 

Temple Bar

Shopping in Temple Bar

Temple Bar is Dublin’s cultural quarter.  Temple Bar area is pedestrianised.  To really appreciate all that Temple Bar has to offer, take time to stroll around.  The area is a hive of activity.  The area includes many pubs, restaurants, art galleries, theatres, curiosity shops, second hand shops and speciality shops.  Every tourist who visits Dublin has to visit Temple Bar.   A decade ago it was a forgotten and run-down place full of narrow streets and the area was under threat of being turned into a major bus station.  We are glad this did not happen!

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