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Bookshop in The Liberties Dublin?

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  • 22-02-2012 5:37pm
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    Claireyy
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭


    Hi guys,

    I'm a journalism student in DIT and I'm writing a piece in The Liberty newspaper about the absence of a good bookshop in the Liberties are of Dublin.

    If anyone knows any information as to why there isn't a bookshop there or when did the area most recently have a bookshop could you please comment below or e-mail me at mcquaid123@gmail.com

    Any information at all would be a great help!!!

    Thanks,

    Claire
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    Denerick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭Denerick


    The answer is obvious - demand and supply. There is only really room for a handful of good independent bookshops in the city and they all co-exist within a mile of each other (From Chapters in the North to Hodges in the South - the gutter bookshop, books upstairs etc. in the middle)


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    Claireyy
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭Claireyy


    yeah sorry in hindsight that may have been a stupid question... there is obviously not a demand for books in the Liberties area... you wouldn't happen to know the most recent bookshop that was situated in the Liberties/Meath St/Thomas St area would you?


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    Toby Take a Bow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Toby Take a Bow


    I've been living in the area since around 2006, and there hasn't been any bookshop in the Liberties since then at least. I would think the answer lies in something similar to what the other poster posted. Demand for a bookshop in an area immediately beside a big city will always be limited. Then you add the fact that bookshops in the big city itself are closing down, and it'd be a fool who opens a bookshop in the liberties. The last one close to that area that I remember is the dandelion or something like that, but that was on Aungier Street, so not quite the liberties.


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    Claireyy
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭Claireyy


    Thanks for that Toby. I appreciate the reply!


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    Claireyy
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭Claireyy


    Toby would I be able to get your second name incase I want to quote you in my article?


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    Toby Take a Bow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Toby Take a Bow


    Claireyy wrote: »
    Toby would I be able to get your second name incase I want to quote you in my article?

    I'll PM you.


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    Claireyy
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭Claireyy


    that would be great thanks!


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    Toby Take a Bow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Toby Take a Bow


    You should have a PM in your inbox.


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    Claireyy
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭Claireyy


    I don't semm to have gotten it?


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    Claireyy
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭Claireyy


    got it! Thanks for all your help! :)


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    Roguery
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭Roguery


    Back in 1974 my best friend and I started a book stall in the Liberties market in Meath st to fill what we thought was a market niche in the area. We got a reputation for being "Rebels" because we had a stock of books on politics, but the only books that really sold were Mills and Boone.


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