On the quiet end of George’s Street, Maddens is a jeweller and jewellery repair business with a distinctive shopfront. Below...
Shopfront
Shop – 1930s
Available now: A self-guided walking tour around some of Dublin’s 1930s highlights.
Shopfront, 109 Pearse Street, Dublin 2+
Pearse Street Hardware’s signage is handpainted in brown and cream, inverting them so that the primary sign stands out in...
Shopfront, 6 College Street, Dublin 2+
The Irish Yeast Company opened in 1894 as wholesalers to Dublin’s baking trade, and still exists as a retail supplier...
Shopfront, 103 Ranelagh, Dublin 6+
Credit unions are part of the building-block shops in towns and villages, the basic kit of parts that’s enough to...
Post Office, 5 Usher’s Quay, Dublin 8+
The post office on Usher’s Quay is still in operation, though it looks like it’s trapped in amber. Its shopfront...
Shopfront, 14 Fownes Street Upper, Dublin 2+
Before the area’s transformation in the 90s, Temple Bar had a number of small businesses – crafts and trades, making...
Retained signage, 35 Upper Camden Street, Dublin 2+
Dublin has a number of junctions named after pubs or businesses located (or formerly located) at the corner – Leonard’s...
Shopfront, 13-14 Sackville Place, Dublin 1+
In the middle of Sackville Place, a surprisingly quiet little street, the Hollywood Academy’s eye-bleedingly vivid cerise front stands out....
Tiles, Essex Street West, Dublin 8+
Smock Alley Court is tucked down at Temple Bar’s western edge, between Cow’s Lane and Fishamble Street. It was designed...
Warehouse, Marlborough Place, Dublin 1+
It’s advertised as “Ireland’s best pennyworth guaranteed” in nearby Talbot Lane, but the warehouse front on Marlborough Place just goes...