Trade Names

With a foreword by Peter Sheridan.

The lament for a disappearing Dublin has been loud and insistent for years now, the doomsayers bemoaning the loss of the capital’s heart to the swaggering swathe cut by the Celtic Tiger economy. The unique was disappearing, they said, old and familiar shops, pubs and businesses falling to development’s surge.

They were more than a little previous. Venerable and unchanging, family-run businesses are trading in streets wide and narrow all across the city. Some have been around for a modest few generations, some for hundreds of years.

Here, gathered together, are the stories of three-score and six businesses which have held onto what they were, who have seen change come and go, and lived to tell the tale. Put together they supply everything a city could want or need, from hats to haircutting, meat, flowers, furniture, bikes, books, burials, shoes, music, clothes, locks, gravestones, fuel...

Taken from the popular Irish Times’ series, and accompanied with specially commissioned photographs by Irish Times’ photographers, Trade Names is a lasting tribute to the Dubliners who have lasted longer than most.

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