Images of Christmas shoppers in Grafton Street Dublin 2004 & Bewleys Oriental Cafe.
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The famous Bewleys cafe on Grafton Street Dublin & meeting place for generations of Dubliners since 1927 re-opened on May 30th 2005 under new management. Both the Grafton Street and older Westmoreland Street Bewleys shops had been closed since December 2004, following several years of poor trading.
Local politicians & Dublin city councillors had also expressed concern at preserving an important part of the city's social heritage.
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During the early 1940s, the Bell Magazine for creative fiction writers was based in offices over Bewleys Grafton Street shop. The Irish writer
Sean O'Faoilean was editor of The Bell for several years &
contributing writers included Flann O'Brien, Jack B. Yeats &
Brendan Behan.
A flower seller on the corner of Harry Street, off Dublin's Grafton Street - with Duke Street in the background & Saint Ann's Church on Dawson Street.
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