Hodges Figgis

53°20′32″N 6°15′29″W / 53.34224°N 6.25815°W / 53.34224; -6.25815

Hodges Figgis
IndustryBookshop
Founded10 Skinner's Row (now Christchurch Place), Dublin, 1768; 256 years ago (1768)
FounderJohn Milliken
HeadquartersDublin, Ireland
Number of locations
1 shop[1]
Area served
Ireland
ProductsBooks
ParentWaterstones Booksellers Ireland Ltd[2]
Websitewww.hodgesfiggis.ie

Hodges Figgis is a long-operating bookshop in central Dublin, Ireland. Founded in 1768,[3] it is probably the third-oldest functioning bookshop in the world,[3] 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.[3] It is mentioned in James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses, at the time of which it would have been situated at 104 Grafton Street,[4][3] and the novel Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, and in other writings.[3]

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).[5][6][3][7]

  1. ^ https://www.hodgesfiggis.ie/find-us [bare URL]
  2. ^ "Company Information". Hodges Figgis. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Falvey, Deirdre. "Hodges Figgis: A 250-year-old story of selling books". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 15 June 2021. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  4. ^ Joyce, James (1922). Ulysses. Project Gutenberg. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
  5. ^ Sweney, Mark (20 May 2011). "HMV sells Waterstone's for £53m". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 31 May 2011.
  6. ^ Hoggan, Karen (26 April 2018). "Waterstones bookshop chain sold to Elliott Advisors". BBC News. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference Bookseller250 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).