Grafton Street is one of the two principal shopping streets in Dublin city centre — the other being Henry Street. It runs from St Stephen's Green in the south to College Green in the north.
South end of Grafton Street
Grafton Street circa 1870
Southern end of Grafton Street, close to Stephens Green, in 2015
Grafton Street in the 1940s
Once is a 2007 Irish romantic musical drama film written and directed by John Carney. The film stars Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová as two struggling musicians in Dublin, Ireland. Hansard and Irglov
Grafton Street
…particularly busking. Musicians, poets and mime artists commonly perform to the shopping crowds. This was portrayed in the opening scene of the 2007 film Once, starring Glen Hansard of the Frames, a former Grafton Street busker. In Dublin, street performers must pay for a licence to busk (€30 per year as of…
US theatrical release poster
Once stars Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová
Site of the filming of Girl's apartment on Mountjoy Square.