Dublin shops
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Passed Greens bookstore on Clare st .during the week and noticed major renovations going on. The client and architect (or 2 characters doing a good impression of those roles) were conversing in the doorway, a crowd had gathered lamenting needless interference with a cultural institution, some inquiring as to what was to happen, was it a sensitive renovation? A glance in the skip answered that, the place was being gutted and relined with Gypum boards. I challenged the the guy with the sleek black rimmed glasses as to when the books would be back, and he scowled back at me and said, ‘bookshop gone 3 months’. I believe its
Its a pity that Dublin city council can not offer relief to the old retailers, as they do in Paris. It pains me to pass Thomas Reids cutlery shop on Parliment st and McNeils music shop on Capel st. Are there any old shops left.
Eeeeeek! Another gimmicky, touristy store is about to open it’s jowls.Well I suppose if most Irish people do their shopping in New York all I can say is there’s more to come. Muffins and bagels anyone?
It’s going to be muffins and bagels… It’s always muffins and bagels. This city has a glut of stores selling muffins and bagels. Dublin obviously has a bad case of Insomnia 😉
I’ll see your muffins and raise you a Spar.
Only if you Centra your bets. Better latte than never. (God be with the days when we had a nice milky coffee that nobody called a cappuccino.) (Yes, I know I live in Italy but can’t stand fluffed up milk.)
The commercial rates are a killer for these ‘low margin’ concerns. I know that the guy running McNeil’s loved having his shop there on Capel Street and loved the building, but in the end it just didn’t make sense for him to be paying the rates and now he’s running the business from home or wherever.
Forgot to mention this…. Greenes actually ended up being a fancy shirt shop. NOT a Spar and NOT a coffee chain. Very refreshing. Its a “Jermyn Street” I think, or Pink…something like that. It looks very well inside but all it got oiutside was a lcok of paint and more substantial works are required. Restoring the canopy would be very welcome indeed
Most of these people. who get upset over the closure of Dublin institutions, probably never bothered to ever buy anything in them, while they were open.
Yes passed by Greenes only yesterday – surprising how quickly they fitted the place out. It has a rather pukey salmon interior that jarrs with the green shopfront, but otherwise a nice job. They’ve cleverly covered over the iron supports in the windows with flock wallpaper which is a nice touch.
Alas it’s not a shop you can go into to have a poke about upstairs; I’d like to know what they did with the most atmospheric part.
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