These are my go-to printing guys in Dublin…read more I have priced around several different companies a few times, and they have always without fail come up on top. Honestly, I don't even bother anymore, I go straight to Printlines. I can email through my creative in the morning, and John will ensure it's delivered to my doorstep without any hassle by the afternoon. I had one occasion when the printing wasn't quite up to standard, but after inspection by John, the technique was changed, and a new set delivered on time again and free of charge, with no quibble. Highly recommended.

Very reasonably priced Excellent quality and design…read more Great customer service and communication Delighted with my business cards

I love the shop in the National Gallery. Not only does it have gorgeous prints and imitation…read morepictures, but it has the best stationary and random book or make-and-do section that I've found. There's brilliant kids stuff and lots of unusual reference books. Nice and alternative.

The National Gallery of Ireland Shop is located in the Gallery's Millennium Wing, just inside the…read moreClare Street entrance. The Gallery shop offers an extraordinary range of artistic memorabilia and fine-art hardbacks. Excellent quality gallery guides and publications such as '1854-2004 The Story of the National Gallery of Ireland', 'Samuel Beckett, A Passion for Painting', and one I recently bought entitled 'Harry Clarke's Illustrations for Hans Christian Anderson's Fairy Tales' are stocked in abundance. The shop also does well to supply really superb art prints and posters ranging from custom prints, canvas prints and small replica prints of the popular paintings displayed within the gallery. The shelves are crammed with awesome art books including those on the topic of Art History together with art inspired fiction such as Sue Roe's 'The Private Lives of the Impressionists', or A.S Byatt's 'Still Life', which I recently purchased. It doesn't stop there either with hardbacks about architecture such as Phaidon publications (well, this wouldn't be a gallery nor museum shop without this name making an appearance in the realm of books concerning the 'visual arts') like 'The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture Travel Edition' amongst others included in the extensive range of stock. However, it's the 'Irish Art and Architecture' hardbacks that really enliven the senses, the cheapest costing a whopping €55. S.B Kennedy's 400 page, 15''x15'' hardback entitled 'Paul Henry - Paintings, Drawings and Illustrations' would illuminate any coffee table. As Ireland's greatest 20th century landscape painter he is featured heavily in the gallery and this carries through to the gifts on offer within the shop. Not only are there books dedicated to his masterpieces as explained but pencils, pens, postcards and more besides all featuring his works of art are available to buy. These gargantuan books really are as striking as their price would suggest. 'Ireland's Painters 1600-1940', for example priced at €60.00 offers one of the finest richly illustrated surveys of the history of 'the' Irish painting (that expertly encompasses the entire span from the middle ages to the mid-20th century) that I have ever seen. Stationery and gifts, calenders and diaries all featuring replicated images of the paintings displayed within the gallery align the shelves in abundance. A chock load of postcards and stationery featuring the gallery's most famous paintings such as Caravaggio's 'The Taking of Christ', Frederick William Burton, 'Meeting on the Turret Stairs' and Rembrandt's 'Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt' cram the shelves. Moving away from this seeming refined stockpile and things directly affiliated with art, the shop also stocks more light-hearted products that are irrelevant in light of fine art but maintain a creative edge concurrent with everything the shop stocks. This includes a pair of Freudian slippers, magnets of Munch's 'Scream' amongst other humorous items. A wonderful shop chocked full with goods that are as cultured as they are entertaining. Anytime I have ever gone in there with friends no one has ever come out empty handed despite no initial intentions to buy anything, which only pays homage to the appealing goods on offer.

This is a centre for the sustainable energy minded amongst you. It is part of a sustainable Ireland…read morecooperative movement. A place to buy products that help you be kinder and work more in harmony with the environment. They also provide information of various topics in this field and I believe they run courses at various times too. It's a very interesting place and there is a lot I don't know about this area so thankfully I was not made feel like a toxic waster when I wandered in. Only bone of contention was the mission statement. I read and re-read and then re-read again their mission statement. Still don't get it, it was a bit too much like waffle for me and actually achieved the opposite of what I believe it says it aims to achieve that is total inclusion. I prefer plain English personally. You have to be careful as to not alienate people and then make being kind to the environment a place for snobs with a conscience.

The Place is awesome run by powerful wisdom artist Courtney Davis. It is gallery, holistic shop and…read moreholistic centre Many holistic workshops are run per month in that holistic center, ln the Gallery you can buy prints, jewellery a smudge sprays to clear a space etc. THE ENERGY IS SO POWERFUL YOU NEED TO Drop in !!

I stopped into this shop after visiting the library. It's tiny but cute. There is decent selection…read morebut it is a bit expensive. I ended up getting a pin for €12.95 and nothing else. The people working here are nice and rang me up quickly. It's worth stopping into but you may not want to pay the high prices that they charge.

After visiting the Chester Beatty Library, I couldn't help but feel like my collection of books and…read moreart was pitiful. All the beautiful manuscripts that Lord Beatty collected from his numerous travels around the world made me envious. It's a good thing that the gift shop next to the museum sells similar stuff. The shop mainly stocks books pertaining to art and religion. It also sells miniature smiling Buddhas and little cobras, the kind of idols you would pray to . There were some delicate wooden statues of Jesus, but they cost an arm and a leg. But I suppose that you have to pay the price for good art. One more thing worth mentioning is the shop's eclectic collection of Tarot Cards. It sells Leonardo Da Vinci Tarot, Jane Austen Tarot, Celtic Tarot and the list goes on. These pretty illustrations will put you back 20 quid!

Right in the heart of Temple Bar, Connolly Books is the coolest bookstore in Dublin and maybe the…read morecoolest radical bookstore I've been in. Named after republican James Connelly, this book has cool texts on decolonization, racism, Irish history, and more.Their selection is well curated and great for leftists and history buffs. Everyone in the store while my partner and I were there were speaking Irish and it was exciting to be in the presence of folks speaking their native fanily language. Definitely check it out.

I love Connolly Books. It's run by a really nice elderly gent who is exactly the kind of person…read morethat I'd like to become when I age very ungracefully. They have very few books for a shop of its size, don't accept laser and is filled with political information pamphlets. All this and it sells cheap comics. Get in!

The Paperweight Office Supplies and Stationery store in Malahide is a great place to go for office…read moreand school supplies. I think it's nicer to give business to these independently-run, smaller stationers than the larger corporations. The store has the usual - office supplies, envelopes, diaries (they even have some cute mid-year diaries), paper and printing products. It's not the most exciting store in the world, but it fulfills its purpose.

The last thing I expected when we visited the charming little town of Glengarriff, Southwest Cork,…read morewas a world-class art gallery. But there it was - the Catherine Hammond Gallery. What a delight! The gallery showcases some of the best contemporary Irish artists and there is a wide range of styles. It is brilliantly curated and a gem of a gallery with a fantastic design gift shop where we found some really great gifts to take home. For us it was a wonderful surprise, one that I'm glad we didn't overlook. Had I known about it I would have gone out of my way to visit Glengarriff just to see the gallery.