Two of Dublin 7′s most vital businesses are based in adjacent shopfronts on Rosemount Terrace, Arbour Hill: Lilliput Stores, a...
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Shopfront (Thomas Read), 4 Parliament Street, Dublin 2+
Passing Thomas Read & Company on Parliament Street, there’s a feeling of the circus having left town. The shop closed...
Joe Byrne Bets Here, signage, 142 Upper Leeson Street, Dublin 4+
Turning from Upper Leeson Street onto Sussex Road, it’s almost impossible to read the sign in front of you as...
The Lilliput Press, 62-3 Sitric Road, Dublin 7+
The Lilliput Press occupies a particularly nice site on Sitric Road: an end-of-terrace house that’s amplified by the step in...
Shopfront, 44 Pearse Street, Dublin 2+
There’s something about O’Donovan’s shopfront that makes it seem like it’s in miniature. It’s not, really, and the three-storey building...
Tiny shopfront, The Coombe, Dublin 8+
The Snug (which is on the Coombe just where it intersects with Francis Street) is one of those sites that...
Shopfronts, 183-187 Pearse Street, Dublin 2+
Numbers 183 to 187 Pearse Street look like part of a paper-doll townscape – a little uniform set piece popped...
Alex’s, George’s Street Upper, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin+
In strictly good-taste design terms, a good shopfront is going to be one that works with the building as a...
Butcher’s shop, 105 Patrick Street, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin+
It’s always a tiny bit worrying to see a butcher’s with a designed shopfront. The butcher’s window is usually a...
Shopfront, 390 South Circular Road, Dolphin’s Barn, Dublin 8+
A.C. Boles Chemist occupies the northern corner of the junction between South Circular Road and Dolphin’s Barn. On the upper...











