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Debenham's
This UK giant hit these shores in 2006; bold and glass-fronted on the outside with street-smart fashion labels like Zara, Warehouse and G-Star inside, as well as the obligatory homewares and electrical sections.
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Decent Cigar Emporium
When the clamour of Grafton St gets too much, slip up this discreet staircase, recline in a plush leather armchair and run your nose along a sweet hand-rolled, long-filler cigar over a glass of decent red wine or a cup of Illy coffee. In a country that has a smoking ban, this is indeed a rare pleasure.
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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 Camera Exchange
This is one of the best photographic equipment shops in town and a reputable developer of prints. Staff are friendly and knowledgeable, and will usually assist in answering any camera-related query, even if the equipment is not bought here. They have a smaller branch at 9B Trinity St) that also opens on Sunday from to .
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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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Dubray Books
Three roomy floors devoted to bestsellers, recent releases, coffee-table books and a huge travel section make this one of the better bookshops in town. It can't compete with its larger, British-owned rivals, but it holds its own with a helpful staff and a lovely atmosphere that encourages you to linger.
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Dundrum Town Centre
Europe's largest shopping and entertainment centre is either globalisation's hideous hydra or the greatest thing to happen to retail since the invention of money. There are more than 100 retail outlets, including virtually every imaginable high street shop, cinemas, restaurants and bars, baby-changing rooms and even a crèche so that you can keep the tiny 'uns amused while you load up on gear.
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Dunnes Stores
A favourite choice with Irish mothers for its affordable everyday family clothing. The Savida fashion range is remarkably on the pulse though and their excellent homewares department is giving Habitat a run for its money. Look for branches across the city.
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Eason's
The biggest selection of magazines and foreign newspapers in the whole country can be found on the ground floor of this huge bookshop near the GPO, along with literally dozens of browsers leafing through mags with ne'er a thought of purchasing one.
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Eason's - Hanna's Bookshop
It's across the street from the side entrance to Trinity College, so conveniently this large bookshop specialises in academic tomes, but you'll also find a good selection of other books. In the basement is a massive stationery shop.
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Epicurean Food Hall
This place is essentially just a food court, but some of Dublin's best eateries have outlets here, and it's a worthy daytime stop-off for a snack, a coffee, lunch or specialist supplies. The food court is perfect if you're not sure what you feel like or if there's discord among your number, because once you get here you can choose between bagels, Italian, French, Mexican, Japanese, Indian and Lebanese, to name just a few.
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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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Flip
This hip Irish label takes the best male fashion moods of the 1950s and serves them back to us, minus the mothball smell. US college shirts, logo T-shirts, Oriental and Hawaiian shirts, Fonz-style leather jackets and well-cut jeans mix it with the genuine second-hand gear upstairs.
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George's St Arcade
Dublin's best nonfood market (there's sadly not much competition) is sheltered within an elegant Victorian Gothic arcade. Apart from shops and stalls selling new and old clothes, second-hand books, hats, posters, jewellery and records, there's a fortune teller, some gourmet nibbles and a fish and chipper who does a roaring trade.
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Great Outdoors
Dublin's best outdoors store, with gear for hiking, camping, surfing, mountaineering, swimming and more. Fleeces, tents, inflatable dinghies, boots and gas cookers - they're all here as well as an info-laden noticeboard and a superbly patient staff.
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Harlequin
A fantastically cluttered shop, jam-packed with authentic vintage clothing gems from the 1920s onwards as well as satin gloves, top hats, snakeskin bags and jet-beaded chokers.
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Havana
This is as exclusive as Dublin fashion boutiques get, but the rewards for a trek out here are the best of Irish design - Lucy Downe's Sphere One cashmeres, Joanne Hynes' elegant evening wear - as well as a host of other top international names. Shoes, jewellery and accessories fill out the rest of the stock.
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HMV
This giant entertainment retailer's main Dublin branch stocks CDs, vinyl, DVDs, games and even books across its three floors. It's exactly what you'd expect from a huge music store.
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Hodges Figgis
The mother of all Dublin bookstores has books on every conceivable subject for every kind of reader spread across its three huge floors, including a substantial Irish section (fiction, history, contemporary issues) on the ground floor.
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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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Jenny Vander
More Breakfast at Tiffany's chic than the cast-offs from Hair , this second-hand store oozes elegance and sophistication. Discerning fashionistas and film stylists snap up the exquisite beaded handbags, fur-trimmed coats, richly patterned dresses and costume jewellery priced as if it were the real thing.
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Jervis Centre
An ultramodern, domed mall that's a veritable shrine to the British chain store. Boots, Top Shop, Debenhams, Argos, Dixons, M&S and Miss Selfridge all get a look-in.
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Kilkenny Shop
A large long-running repository for contemporary, innovative Irish crafts, including multicoloured, modern Irish knits, designer clothing, Orla Kiely bags and some lovely silver jewellery. The glassware and pottery is beautiful and sourced from workshops around the country. A great source for presents.
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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.
