Christmas Shopping
Christmas Shopping inspiration can be found on every Cork city centre street; Patrick Street, the city's main shopping street boasts Ireland's most elegant Brown Thomas Department Store, Dunnes Store's flagship Store, Penneys and Debenhams, Merchant Quay Shopping Centre, great bookstores and a wealth of top fashion stores.
The newly created Opera Lane and Half Moon Street shopping district delivers high street fashion in a unique architectural setting, alongside quirky stores and cafés in the city's historic Huguenot Quarter which are filled with great Christmas gifts and treasures.
Oliver Plunkett Street and its myriad of side streets offer independent retail at its very best with popular boutiques, music shops, fashion and much more. North Main Street is the oldest retailing street in the city serving traditional wares and MacCurtain Street, just north of the river Lee, is noted for its antique and homeware stores.
Unique to Cork and a city treasure is the English Market, an indoor emporium of the finest Cork food produce and a Christmas must visit for unusual patés and cheeses, spiced meats and game, puddings, cakes and chocolates.
Cork's suburbs are home to major shopping centres and towns throughout the Cork region offer opportunities for great shopping expeditions. Kinsale and Middleton are renowned for their farmers markets, delicatessens, galleries and jewellers.
And traditional Irish shops in Clonakilty and Skibbereen , house local fishmongers, butchers, bakers and greengrocers alongside the unique and exquisite craft shops of potters, jewelers, woodturners and candlemakers.
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