7 stores · curated ORBIS register
Rathmines, Dublin
April & The Bear, at 213 Rathmines Road Lower in Dublin, sells eclectic homewares, exclusive art prints, gifts and furniture spanning sofas, dining furniture, lighting, rugs, candles, cushions and tableware. The shop also runs A+TB Design Studio, offering interior design consulting.
Best for Eclectic homewares and furniture
21a High Street, Dublin 2 (Powerscourt Townhouse) / Online
Independent perfumes and scented candles composed and hand-poured in Galway, sold through the Dublin boutique.
Best for Perfumes and candles composed and hand-poured in Galway, informed by the history
City centre, Dublin
House of Read, at No 4 Parliament Street in Dublin and dating to around 1712 when James Read became an apprentice cutler before the firm won a royal warrant for cutlery and surgical instruments in 1821, today sells chocolates, macaroons, pastries, jams, marmalades and chutneys. It also stocks china, silverware, candles and both new and vintage silver-plate tableware bearing its elephant-and-castle design, in a building restored in 2017.
Best for Chocolates preserves and silver tableware
Kinsale / Ireland
Boland Gifts is a gift shop on Pearse Street in Kinsale that sells scented candles and diffusers.
Best for Candles and diffusers
Douglas
A social enterprise founded in 2005 that sells the work of more than sixty Cork makers, from ceramics and jewellery to glass, woodwork, textiles and candles. Its shops include one in Douglas Court Shopping Centre, gathering Irish craft under one roof.
Best for Work by Cork makers
Bennettsbridge, County Kilkenny, Ireland
Larry Kinsella, a founding member of the Made in Kilkenny craftspeople's collective, has hand-poured candles at this riverside studio in Bennettsbridge since 1999, near the Nicholas Mosse pottery. The workshop produces pillar and scented candles alongside studio-only pieces like glow-globes and tortured-wax sculptures that visitors can watch being made.
Best for Handmade candles and wax art
West Cork, Skibbereen
West Cork Crafts is an artist cooperative at 4 Bridge Street, Skibbereen, representing thirty one artists and crafters based in County Cork since becoming permanent in 2012. The shop sells art, photography, textiles, woodwork, ceramics, jewellery, greetings cards, fashion, candles, metalwork, cosmetics and stained or fused glass.
Best for County cork art and craft gifts
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