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The Winding Stair
Ormond Quay
What The Winding Stair is known for
The Winding Stair became a Dublin landmark as a bookshop in the 1970s, named after a Yeats poem and set beside the Ha'penny Bridge on Lower Ormond Quay. It reopened in 2006 with a restaurant upstairs, keeping the ground-floor bookshop and its old shelves intact.
Best for — Ground-floor bookshop and riverside dining
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✓ Personally verified — crawled twice, human-checked · July 2026 · no store paid to be here
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