Liberty Market
Bustling covered stalls in a converted nineteenth-century coal store, trading leather goods, sweets and bargains since nineteen seventy three.
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This guide to Liberty Market in Dublin opens with Harry Armstrong, who paid five pounds on the spot for a shoe stall by the front door and kept it until he died at ninety-six. It traces the market back to October 1973, when a Trinity music student named Michael FitzGerald talked a Cork businesswoman into taking over a derelict nineteenth-century coal store on Meath Street with him, and how he scavenged scrap yards for the iron and timber to raise its roof himself. Listen for the traders still hawking leather goods and sweets from glass jars along the aisle.
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