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Blarney Woollen Mills
This is the Dublin branch of the best-known Irish shop in the country - the actual mills are located in County Cork, within sight of the famous castle and its gab-bestowing rock. This branch shouldn't disappoint, with a particularly wide range of cut crystal, porcelain presents and its trademark woolly things.
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Crafts Council Gallery
One of several craft shops in the Powerscourt building, this gallery has a fine selection of glassware, pottery and jewellery, although you'll need a flexible credit card.
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Designyard
A high-end, craft-as-art shop where everything you see - glass, batik, sculpture, painting - is one-off and handmade in Ireland. It also showcases contemporary jewellery stock from young international designers.
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Dublin City Gallery - The Hugh Lane Shop
A cultural playground for adults, where you can dig out cubist fridge magnets, huge po-mo hanging mobiles, masterpiece colour-by-number prints, cloth puppets, unusual wooden toys and beautiful art and pop culture hardbacks.
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Fleury Antiques
This blue-fronted antiques shop does a steady connoisseur's trade in all manner of oil paintings (there's something for virtually every taste), vases, candelabras, silverware, porcelain and decorative pieces from the 18th century right up to the 1930s.
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House Of Names
Impress your friends by serving them drinks on coasters emblazoned with your family's coat of arms, matching the sweatshirt you're wearing and, of course, the glasses or mugs your drinks are served in. All this and more can be yours from the House of Names, so long as you have a surname with Irish roots.
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Irish Museum of Modern Art Gift Shop
Offers a comprehensive selection of coffee-table books on Irish contemporary art.
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Knobs & Knockers
Replica Georgian door-knockers are highly recommended as a great souvenir of your Dublin visit, but there are plenty of other souvenir door adornments to look at here.
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Oxfam Home
They say charity begins at home so get rummaging among the veneer cast-offs in this furniture branch of the charity chain where you might stumble across the odd 1960s Subbuteo table or Art Deco dresser. Esoteric vinyl from the '80s is another speciality of the house.
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Tower Craft Design Centre
Housed in a 19th-century warehouse that was Dublin's first iron-structured building, this design centre has studios for local craftspeople. They make jewellery in both contemporary and Celtic-inspired designs, and work with Irish pewter, ceramics, silk and other fabrics. They also knock out pottery, rugs, wall hangings, cards, leather bags and various other handcrafted items. It's opposite the Waterways Visitors Centre, off Lower Grand Canal St.
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