Booksellers & Stationers in Dublin

Ivy Exchange, Parnell Street, Dublin

Ireland's largest independent bookshop — huge selection, new and second-hand. A Dublin institution.

Best for Ireland's largest independent bookshop — new and second-hand books

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56-58 Dawson Street, Dublin

Hodges Figgis sells books from its Dawson Street premises in Dublin, with a dedicated Irish range. That range covers Irish fiction and history alongside poetry, travel writing and Irish-language books. The business traces its beginnings to 1768 on Skinner's Row, rather than to the current building.

Best for Irish writing and general books in Dublin

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Dublin / Ireland

The Kilmainham Gaol Book and Gift Shop occupies the ground floor of the Courthouse Visitor Centre and can be visited without a museum ticket, and it also sells online at kilmainhamgaolbooks.ie. It stocks books tied to the site's history as a 19th- and 20th-century Irish prison alongside general gift items.

Best for Books, gifts, irish-history

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City Centre

Independent secondhand bookshop and record store at 15A Wicklow Street in central Dublin, Ireland, buying, selling and trading used books alongside vinyl records and CDs.

Best for Used books and vinyl below Wicklow Street

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Ormond Quay

The Winding Stair became a Dublin landmark as a bookshop in the 1970s, named after a Yeats poem and set beside the Ha'penny Bridge on Lower Ormond Quay. It reopened in 2006 with a restaurant upstairs, keeping the ground-floor bookshop and its old shelves intact.

Best for Ground-floor bookshop and riverside dining

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