Cork Street would benefit a lot more from rows of thriving shops bringing activity to street level than from having...
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Shop – 1930s
Available now: A self-guided walking tour around some of Dublin’s 1930s highlights.
Arrow, Thomas/Meath Street, Dublin 8+
At the corner of Thomas Street and Meath Street, the ground floor unit has the kind of insert-name-here signage contributing...
Shopfront, 23 Harcourt Road, Dublin 2+
The Manhattan was a Dublin institution: open only at night, serving fried breakfasts and chips, similar to the nearby Gigs...
Shopfront, 53b George’s Street Upper, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin+
On the quiet end of George’s Street, Maddens is a jeweller and jewellery repair business with a distinctive shopfront. Below...
Signage, 30a Camden Row, Dublin 8+
At the entrance to O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects’ offices on Camden Row, the number of the building is stencilled on...
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...
CIE sign, Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1+
Outside the quaintly-named Travel Centre on Lower Abbey Street, there’s a sign with the old CIE logo. The 1964 logo...
Two neon signs, 3 and 67 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin 1+
I tend to think of The Happy Ring House and Funland’s neon signage as a pair, though with the former’s...
Signage, 1, 2 & 3 Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2+
The convention for numbering addresses spanning more than one building seems to be ‘1-3′, but this sign makes a good...
Sign, Liffey Street Upper, Dublin 1+
This is another ghost sign, on the gable end of a terrace on Liffey Street Upper. It’s a nostalgic favourite...