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Duck Lane, which was once a historic laneway, is now a vibrant, new, major shopping area, located in the heart of Smithfield Village. It has been redeveloped to provide a showcase of Ireland's top clothing, crafts and homeware producers together with an exciting range of international products. Here you'll find the best of Irish and international crafts and gifts: clothing and jewellery, cds, colourful pottery, gleaming crystal, books and food.
Duck Lane is a vibrant, modern and even qui...

Running from Henry Street to Parnell Street is Moore Street, famous for its colourful street traders with their fruit and vegetable stalls. Their street cries and banter are pitched in a particularly broad Dublin accent which is widely celebrated. Up to ninety casual traders sell their wares from numbered pitches. Most are women, many of them mothers and daughters, and the friendly, but often sharp, verbal exchanges with other traders or customers (perhaps you) are part of Moore Street's...

All products are hand-thrown stoneware, durable and chip-resistant and will give many years of use. You will find a unique range of Tableware, Candle-holders, Lamps, Bowls, Jugs and vases in beautiful turqoise and sea blue colours. Qualification : BA in Ceramics MA in Ceramic Design Master Potter Products: Tableware Kitchware Lamps Fountains Burners Technique All of the pieces are individually Handmade on a potters wheel. They are fired in a gas kilm at 1280 de...

The Forms of Life Studio presents: Snow, Isis, Fire, Birds, Birds, Birds. Three wonderful collections of hand made, hand painted ceramic birds. Each range, unique in design, includes Tiny Birds, Pebble birds and Leggy birds, all with their own expressive characters, a feature achieved by skilled hand finishing. The choice of styles from the pure simplicity of the white Snow birds to the blazing colour of the Isis birds, and the subtle sophistication of the Fire birds in their black and gold...

When you visit us at Dublin Woollen Mills, beside the famous Ha'penny bridge, you will find a superb range of fashionable and traditional sweaters, knitwear and accessories. The warmth and quality of our sweaters, kilts, hats, shawls and scarves is rivalled only by our staff's renowned friendly service and attention to your needs....

L'aura (Ireland) Ltd. is a young Irish Company headed by Pauline Gallagher, B.Sc. (Hons), a cosmetic chemist and member of the Society of Cosmetic Scientists. L'aura (Ireland) Ltd. was the winner of the 1993 Bolton Trust First Step To Business Competition for new business ideas and is now active in product development, manufacturing and consultancy....

For forty years the Project Arts Centre has preserved the best in contemporary Irish and International , dance,music and visual arts in the heart of Dublin's Temple Bar.

It exists in order to encourage emerging and established artists in creating innovative work . The Project Arts Centre was at the centre of the early careers of U2, Jim Sheriday and Neil Jordan....

Traditional Irish knitting stitches mirror life in the West of Ireland, a land where deep religious faith gives meaning to a life which is always hard and often dangerous. These stitches originated on the Atlantic swept Aran Islands off the coast of Connemara....

Firbolgs pieces are colourful humourous and particularly Irish in essence. Celtic character simply flows from the laughing golfers, to the groaning rugby players through to the ceol agus craic of the rowdy musicians....

The Museum of Childhood, a short bus-journey away at No 20 Palmerstown Park, contains a wonderful collection of dolls from the early eighteenth century onwards, with dolls' houses and other childhood delights. Compulsive viewing for children and ex-children alike....