Dublin is a wonderful city to visit, no matter what time or year. Spring is the ideal season to visit Dublin because its off-season and the rates are reasonable and because it’s when many of the holidays and festivals occur. Of course, the most important holiday in Dublin is St. Patrick’s Day. If you’d like to visit during the holiday, be sure to make reservations!
Dublin is well known for its extensive shopping areas, such as Temple Bar, Nassau Street, Henry Street, O’Connell Street, St. Stephen’s Green, and Grafton Street. The Brown Thomas department store on Grafton Street is a great place to check the local styles and Irish designs.
Dublin offers several department stores that will keep you busy for hours. St. Stephen’s shopping mall offers the largest department store. This area of Dublin gets busy in the summer with plenty of hustle and bustle. Plan on making reservations at restaurants to save on lengthy waits in line.
If you go to Dawson Street, you will find the small, high-end stores, which offer designer clothing. Even though you’ll spend more money, it will be well worth it, since the clothes are very exclusive. You can also purchase jewelry, craft items, and antiques.
For a different shopping experience, head for Mother Redcap’s, which can be found in Back Lane. Mother’s Redcap is a huge indoor market that is famous for its wide selection of most any items: books, music, antiques, clothes, cheeses, cakes, and other tasty treats.
Dublin has many wonderful bookstores that will be of interest to the general book reader, as well as the specialist who is looking for a first edition print. For a good selection of antiquarian books you will want to go to Catch Books, which is located on Duke Street. If you are traveling to Dublin take the time out of your busy sight- seeing schedule to spend a few hours, or days, shopping.
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