Took me halfway through the video to remember that’s your mom and NOT your 25-year old friend?? Oh my goodness, she has such a young, adorable spirit to her! I love it! 💛
If anyone is going to Dublin I would HIGHLY recommend going to Marshes library, just behind st Patrick's cathedral. It's one of the oldest private libraries in Ireland, so beautiful, the staff are really well informed. It gives similar vibes (just on a smaller scale) to the trinity library, but the entrance is very cheap (unlike trinity 😬)
Oh yes i loved that one!! Found it on accident when we were walking through Dublin when they were just closing but they still let us in, the staff was so nice, highly recommend as well
Jack, your mum is just the cutest! 🥺 Looks like the perfect day out to me, 50 book shops, sushi, cake and Guinness? Absolutely! Great video, thanks for taking us with you while you make some fantastic memories 🙌
I love how each bookstore has its own style/vibe. I really hope to go to Dublin someday. Also I just want to say thank you so much for the videos. I love discovering more about literature and seeing glimpses of different places through your travels. Your videos are always a good time :)
Hodges Figgis is my absolute favourite, I love it so much! This made me appreciate Dublin even more, it’s always cool to see your city through a tourist’s eyes. Looking forward to seeing what books you got 📖📚
Wow!!! Our family is going to Ireland this summer. You just made our time in Dublin SO MUCH better! I am not sure that I can get to all these bookstores, but I can certainly try. Thanks, Jack!!
This makes me smile because I visit the same spots every time I go to Dublin. I went there last June and every bookstore I visited is featured in the video😂 A couple of recs in case anyone is interested: the Museum of Irish Literature (right next to St Stephen’s Green in the building where Joyce studied) and Bloomsday, the annual festival devoted to Ulysses where people wear fancy Edwardian clothes, read the novel out loud and have the time of their lives.
THE SECRET BOOKSTORE!!! :D I camp in there daily when I can, I love it so much! I so appreciate the time you took to experience all our amazing independent bookshops in Dublin!
the only book shop I managed to stumble upon while I was in Dublin was the last book shop! the name intrigued me as it reminded me of the last book store in LA and wow. the labyrinth of books that greeted me was like out of a storybook. I ended up getting the miniaturist for 5 euros and its one of my favorite memories. I'm so happy you were able to experience it as well!
omg, your video brought me a sense of comfort I desperately needed. I love bookstores and seeing all of these beautiful ones in Dublin was amazing, so thank you for bringing us along
This was super lovely, thank you for taking us with you on this trip. It looked like a perfect day! Also, such a good vibes, pure joy from your side. Enjoy yourself Jack.
This was such a tour down memory lane. I stayed in Dublin for a month in 2016, and I remembered being amazed by the number of libraries and the amazing cheap options. I had such a good experience that Dublin will always stay close to my heart💙💙
Last year, I studied abroad in Dublin. I had the best time there and seeing you visiting all the bookstores and places I've been to made me feel really nostalgic. Thank you so much for this lovely vlog🤍
a bit late here but I am an Irish historian and have not been back in a while. This made me so nostalgic!! Also, can attest: the reading room at the NLI is simply beautiful! It's a dream to study there.
Dublin person here - your entriely accurate description/ thoughts about the Spire (giant knitting needle) are what every Dubliner thinks when they see it. Also loved all the book shops I didn't even know half of these existed!!! I know what I'm doing one weekend !!
I’m so glad you went to Books Upstairs bc I used to love popping in there on rainy days and wait for my bus which stopped right outside and it was nice to see it again!
my god dublin looks stunning, i can't wait to go!! also your mum is such a champ for coming along with you all day lmao mine would have dumped me at the second bookshop we found
Going to Dublin in May and had some of these already stared on my google maps (Books Upstairs, Winding Stair Bookshop and Ulysses) but I am so glad you showed me more to add to my list! Even more excited now!
This video really hits diff for me because in October I went to Dublin and I tried so hard to find bookstores but for some reason they were all closed😭 Just before I left I was able to visit “The gutter shop” and I literally thought of you! It’s so special seeing you actually going there❤️ By the way I’m a follower of yours from Italy and your videos have helped me sooo much learning English!!!
Well done Jack. You covered all the good bookshops. I live near The Last Bookshop and it does have everything. I visit it it almost every other day and l bestow there the books I cannot fit. Congrats on your honour at The Phil and come back soon…
Last time I was in Dublin I did a bookstore day and I'm pretty sure you hit all the ones I did (and many more)! Thanks for the nostalgia trip, always lovely to see my pretty city :')
Hee hee this video made me so happy! I live really close to the city and seeing you there, going to so many of my favourite places even going to where I did my work experience is so thrilling especially watching you be a silly lil tourist. Oh and we all call the giant knitting needle "the stilleto from the ghetto" :))
giant knitting needle!!!! can’t wait to steal that bahahaha, so glad you liked books upstairs and so jealous you got to go to the cafe, it’s always totally full when i go
That was a real delight for me. I was in Dublin in 2013 and went to pretty much every you did, but didn't get inside the National Library, and they probably didn't have that cool Lego library back then anyway.... will have to stage a return.
the carrot cake at Books Upstairs truly is superior (and I think it's called Books Upstairs because it used to be on the first floor of a building on College Green, before it moved a few years back! they just didn't change the name)
hodges figgis was actually mentioned in normal people! i went to dublin last year and i went to the exact same bookshops as you! i miss that city so much, can't wait to go back
I went to Dublin for the first time (and also tried Guinness for the first time too) last month so this is perfect timing to relive the trip :) beautiful city
have i just discovered more bookshops from this video than from almost a year that i myself have spent in dublin? absolutely but tbf even the few ones that i went to a couple of times, like ulysses or books upstairs were stunning irl!
I take my bus from school in front of the last bookshop. It was the biggest surprise as I was watching RU-vid and I saw you. I didn’t beliege myself and now I am kicking myself I didn’t say hi!
You just reminded me I am due a trip to Hodges, and Chapters when I home next. When left with time to kill, I just go and spend time in Hodges, taking notes of all the books I want to read at some point. And Chapters, always the best music section in Dublin and affordable prizes, with an amazing second hand shop upstairs. Also buying books in euros is heartbreaking, €20 does not = £20 of paperbacks.
If you like old books, I think you should have a look at the exhibitions at the national library in London. We saw some fantastic things when we were there last summer ! I would also recommend the Bodmer's Foundation museum, but that's in Geneva (Switzerland)...
I so enjoyed that! I used to live near Dublin (Dunsany- yes, the writer’s castle) and went straight to Hodges Figgis every time. Did you see The Book of Kells? SOoo beautiful. I really miss Dublin, and the Guinness. I bet you had a great time. Thank you again.
When I think about Ireland, the only thing that kindles my mind is the nation's contributions to English literature. Laurence Sterne, Jonathan Swift, Richard Sheridan, G. B. Shaw, W. B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, J. S. Le Fanu, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Seàn O'Casey and Seamus Heaney - just think about the contributions of these men to English as well as world literature. I hope I may visit this country someday. Love and respect, from India.
Saw you speak at Trinity and you were absolutely amazing, very well deserved :) Loved the video too you have added many stops to my must visit list haha
I am headed to London next week and I am 100% going to copy your idea of flagging all the bookstores I want to go to and then making a little walk out of all of them 💚 Daunt Books is high on the list
I paid for an online tour on Amazon because it was deeply discounted and I got really sick during the pandemic and they cancelled it this was the next best thing thank you
fun fact about chatpers: it was closed for a few months due to costs and before it reopened there was plans to turn it into a gym! swapping samuel beckett for samuel bench-it
