A colleague suggested I stop in at Sweny’s, an old chemist shop (what we in the States call a pharmacy) just to see the architecture.
Sweny’s hosts readings of texts authored by famous Dubliners. It also displays old books and artifacts as they would have been a hundred years ago.
The place reminds me of the old general store my parents photographed in, I think, Virginia’s Giles County, when I was a kid. (It may have even been near Dublin, Virginia — which would be a fun coincidence!)
Their clients were building a detailed model of the general store, to scale. I loved perusing the shelves and investigating the old-time shoes, not yet sold, looking for a home.
Ireland by Chance 
What a great place! Thank you for sharing it, Shannon!
The general store you mentioned still had the original $2.50 price tags on the shoes!
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I loved those lace up boots. The ones I found in Kilkenny (that you gave me for Christmas) reminded me of that pair I love from the Dublin country store.
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So, the rotary phone marks me as an old person as this is what we had growing up–complete with party line too!
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Never fear, I grew up with a rotary phone, too!
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