Parnell Street
Parnell Street (Sráid Parnell in Irish) is located on Dublin's Northside and is one of the important shopping streets in Dublin, running from the Capel Street in the east to Gardiner Street in the west.
History and Culture
The Rotunda Hospital, the Ambassador Theatre and the Gate Theatre are on Parnell Street itself while the Garden of Remembrance, the Dublin Writers Museum and the Hugh Lane Gallery are on the north side of the Parnell Square. The James Joyce Centre is just off Parnell Street on North Great Georges Street.
Retail & services
Shopping Centres
The Ilac Shopping Centre: The Ilac Shopping Centre is the oldest shopping centre in the city-centre. It is a large single story complex which contains many shops. Shops in the Ilac centre include Dunnes Stores, Roches Stores, Champion Sports, Jack and Jones and Argos.The Ilac Shopping Centre has many interesting and lower budget shops. One entrance leads out to Moore Street's famous market and there's also a public library inside the centre.
The Moore Street Mall, a recently opened shopping centre, also has an entrance on Parnell Street.
Other Retail & services
This list is far from complete-
- Peats Electronics
- Penneys
- Chapters Bookshop
- Eddie Rockets Restaurant
- McDonald's
- Burger King
- Paddy Power Bookmaker
- An amusements arcade in the Parnell Centre
- Jurys Hotel
- The Wool Shed (Australian-Themed Bar)
- Fibbers (Goth/Metal Bar)
- Patrick Conway's Pub (Home of the boom boom room)
The Cineworld (UGC) cinema on Parnell Street is the largest cinema in Ireland with seventeen screens.
The street also has flagship city centre stores for German discount supermarket chains such as Aldi and Lidl.
Smiths Toys, Maplin Electronics and Toymaster are on Jervis Street, just off Parnell Street.
A Stringfellow's restaurant and strip club operated on Parnell Street for a number of months before closing because of poor trading performance. Various Resident's associations, women's groups and Christian groups had campaigned against it, and its demise has been linked to those protests.
The eastern end of the street has around twenty Chinese and Korean restaurants.
The street also has many other bars, restaurants and shops.