De Búrca Rare Books

There’s over 20,000 titles on Ireland and Irish culture in the catalogue of De Burca’s Rare Books. And the wonderful thing about the well dressed and formal reading room at their 51a Dawson street location is that hiberno-​buffs get a chance to experience the very rarest of these titles from the comfort of a scene-​setting wing back chair.
Shoppers are liable to pass the Georgian door by, pulled down the street by those flash chain shops like Waterstone’s (which serves breakfast) and Hodges & Figgis (which has all the TCD course books), and maybe that’s a good thing. The maps, manuscripts and prints here are so specialist (and so expensive) there’s no chance you could balance a cappuccino over the pages without raising the blood pressure of owner Eamon De Búrca.
Customers here are serious about their books and peruse the lists like wine connoisseurs. For owners of antique publications, De Búrca also offers bookbinding along with an exceptionally elegant atmosphere and an incredible specialist reading list.