41 Best Shopping in Dublin, Ireland

A stalwart of Dublin's traditional antiques quarter around Francis Street, Fennelly's specializes in early furniture and decorative items like candlesticks, tea caddies, and fitted jewelry caskets.

This is the best place in town to buy instruments, sheet music, scores, and books about music.

Popular with Dubliners, this jewelry shop has been in business for more than 100 years.

Held Saturday from 10 am to 4:30 pm in the heart of Temple Bar, this is a good place to buy homemade foodstuffs: cheeses, breads, chocolate, and organic veggies.

If you're into cashmere, you should get yourself into Monaghan's.

The regal former town home of Lord Powerscourt (built in 1771) was largely gutted two decades ago to make room for an interior roofed-over courtyard and a space shared by a mix of restaurants, cafés, antiques stores, and boutiques of original Irish fashions by young designers. A pianist often plays on the dais at ground-floor level.

On the former site of the two-centuries-old Royal Hibernian Hotel, a coaching inn that was demolished in 1983, this complex is home to pricey, stylish shops—about 20 or 30, many selling fashionable clothes and accessories—including Carol Clarke's Irish Jewel.

Dublin's city center's largest and most ambitious shopping complex, St. Stephen's Green Centre resembles a giant greenhouse, with Victorian-style ironwork. On three floors overlooked by a giant clock, the 100 mostly small shops sell crafts, fashions, and household goods.

They might sell sweaters and scarves but Trinity Woollen Mills is also your one-stop shop for everything kitschy Irish, such as trashy treasures like "the leprechauns made me do it" mugs and Guinness-logo underwear.

Once part of a mainstream chain, Tower is now Ireland's biggest independent record store. It carries all the latest CDs, DVDs, music books, vinyl, and music merchandise.

An upmarket shopping mall, the Westbury is where you can buy a stylish range of designer jewelry, antique rugs, and decorative goods.