Traditional Irish shopfronts: Signs of times in Irish towns

Take a trip around the towns and villages of Ireland and among the fast-food shops and convenience stores, you will see the remnants of shopfronts from a different era, when grocers, ironmongers, victuallers and confectioners plied their trade.

These facades will provoke a moment of reverie for the generations who grew up frequenting such shops, buying everything from penny sweets to pipe tobacco.