Grafton Street runs from the front of Trinity College to St. Stephen's Green. There are always street performers here, from buskers of varying standards to those increasingly tiresome painted, frozen men to comedians or that limbo dancer guy who's feeling 'hot, hot, hot'. Brown Thomas, Marks & Spencer, Dunnes Stores and HMV are the largest shops, with mainly clothes shops taking up the rest of the street. There's Jigsaw, Next, Impulse, River Island, Principles, Miss Selfridge, Vera Moda, Pia Bang, Racing Green, Club Dublin, Monsoon, Warehouse and many more. Gymboree caters for kids' clothes. There are loads of shoe-shops like Korkys, Zerep, Barretts, Nine West and Bally. For gifts, there's the Dublin bookshop, the Body Shop, Tie rack, the Dublin Jewellery institution that is Weirs, along with other jewellers like Ernest Jones, Gavronski, West and another branch of Fields. There's the Camera Centre and a Spectra Photo to get your pictures developed. If you've phone troubles, there are branches of O2, Vodaphone and Carphone Warehouse.  There are three pharmacies including a Boots, various banks and a few newsagents. The flagship Bewleys Café is halfway down or up dependent on where you start and a good meeting point.

Henry Street's identity has always been close to that of a street market, what with Moore Street's fruit and vegetable stalls at its East End and all kinds of seasonal stall-holders on Henry Street proper. At Christmas, they sell all kinds of knick-knacks and of course, wrapping paper. At Hallowe'en, it's the more harmless fireworks and now it'll be Easter eggs. Apart from the Jervis Street Centre dealt with elsewhere, the largest shop is Arnotts (see Department Stores). Across the road is Roches Stores and the entrance to the Ilac Centre. There are over 200 shops on the street. Clothes shops like Envy, USB, Next, Sasha, Merc, A-Wear, Oasis, Penneys, Japan, Wallis, Diffneys, No Name, Extovert and Evans. Henry Street is pretty good for shoes too with Korkys, Zerep, Ravel and She. Music shops like Virgin, Golden Discs and HMV are here too.  Jewelllers like H.Samuel, Half-Price Jewellers and yet another branch of Fields. There are various sports shops like John David and Lifestyle Sports. For gifts there's the computer game shop, Game and Monsoon Accessories. There's a branch of Bewleys if you're in need of a break.

Really an extension of the Grafton Street area is Wicklow Street. Coming from Trinity up Grafton St, this is the second turn on the right at Weirs jewellers. This is where Dublin seems at its most glamorously languid with shops and cafés. There's Tower Records, a perennial hang-out of Cure Heads in my day and now it's the skater boys and girls. Various Ladies' clothes shops like Japan, David Thomas, Airwave and Kookai are here. Men are catered for with Louis Copeland, Magee, while there's stuff for both sides of the gender tracks in Airwave, the Sweater Shop and Lacoste. Shoerack and Cinders provide the footwear. For gifts there's Past Times, Treasure Island, L'Occitane, Handcraft Lighting and of course the jewellers, Ríanoir and O'Reillys. If you're dead on your feet after seeing all this, you can relax in Rios or Butlers coffee shops.

The Temple Bar area has some shops that'll be of interest to younger shoppers. There are a few second-hand clothes shops like Eager Beaver and Sé-Sí. On Crown Alley, there's youth orientated clothes shop Fresh, second-hand record shops like Comet Records and off the other side of Temple Bar Square, there's US streetwear giant Urban Outfitters and a gift-shop called Source @ Urbana with lots of silly things. In Crow Street, there's Sticks & Stones gallery & giftshop, which is worth a lot too.