Hodges Figgis
| Industry | Bookshop |
|---|---|
| Founded | 10 Skinner's Row (now Christchurch Place), Dublin, 1768 |
| Founder | John Milliken |
| Headquarters | Dublin, Ireland |
Number of locations | 2 shops |
Area served | Ireland |
| Products | Books |
| Parent | Waterstones Booksellers Ireland Ltd |
| Website | www |
Hodges Figgis is a long-operating bookshop in central Dublin, Ireland. Founded in 1768, it is probably the third-oldest functioning bookshop in the world, after the Livraria Bertrand of Lisbon (1732) and Pennsylvania's Moravian Book Shop (1745). It was moved and expanded numerous times, and arrived at 56 Dawson Street in 1979, and gradually expanded to take its current form of four floors at 56-58 Dawson Street in 1992. It is mentioned in James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses, at the time of which it would have been situated at 104 Grafton Street, and the novel Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, and in other writings.
Since 2011, Hodges Figgis has been owned and operated by Waterstones, which in turn is owned by US investment management firm Elliott Investment Management and A&NN Capital Fund Management (an investment fund owned by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut).