Mojo’s Records

Very small upstairs room, bad selection of vinyl. There seems to be lots of vinyl in boxes tucked away behind the counter, makes you feel like the owner doesn’t want anyone to buy anything. There is a very hostile feeling in the shop also and you feel like you are being constantly watched incase you drop any vinyl

It has to be my cynical heart that’s made me wary of everything on offer in Temple Bar. Maybe I passed Oliver St John Gogarty’s, Hard Rock and Thunder Road café too many times, or had to push my way through too many crowds of tourists (or Hen Parties).
There are some very genuine spots down here, like the Temple Bar Art Gallery, the book market, and Farmer’s Market. But then, for every Joy of Cha there’s an Oliver St. John Gogarty… making this place a hodge podge of shop fronts and chain stores mingling deftly with the genuine.
It makes me wonder what was exchanged for the brave little Mojo Records –a very real and very entertaining used music and books shop in Merchants Arch.
Ragged around the edges and feeling every inch the muso den that it is, Mojo’s is an excellent primer in vintage music shopping. There’s posters, t-​shirts and other memorabilia on sale here as well, and given its front door on the busy alley leading from the Ha’Penny bridge, it’s always full of back-​pack toting students and the like.
Well worth a stop for tourists, music lovers and cynics alike, make sure to go in with an open mind.

Mojo Records is a tiny record shop under Merchants Arch at the Quays entrance to Temple Bar. It’s a wonderfully pokey little place, selling new and secondhand CDs, DVDs, vinyls, posters and music memorabilia. There is a heavy emphasis on Irish rock, which is unsurprising really given the location at the heart of Dublin’s tourist hub, Temple Bar.
There’s a relatively new secondhand bookshop (a contradiction in terms?) upstairs which is a great place to pick up a few dogeared novels.

Second-​hand CD and record shop with a strong emphasis on Irish rock. U2, Thin Lizzy and Sinead O’Connor fans will all have something to smile about here. Knowledgeable staff and a great location. Some good stuff to be found in the books section upstairs too.