page_title: Talbot Mall
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Talbot Mall / History
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of the gardens behind the Irish Life Centre (and Mall) which is now known as Talbot Mall.
context_page_description: Talbot Mall is a small shopping arcade located between Talbot Street and Northumberland Square and so Abbey Street in Dublin, Ireland. Operating for some years with only a few trading units, it today primarily forms a public passage between Talbot and Abbey Streets.
context_section_description: Opened in September 1979 by the chairman of Ireland's largest life assurance company, Irish Life, the Irish Life Mall was a second-phase element of the nine-building Irish Life buildings complex, originally built 1974–1977 and mostly comprising office space, as well as two blocks of apartments. The mall runs from the midpoint of Talbot Street to Northumberland Square and Abbey Street.  It originally had two entrances on Talbot Street, with the passages merging at a central atrium;  one entrance and passage were later absorbed into rental units.  The mall's name was later expanded to Irish Life Shopping Mall.
  Irish Life, now part of the Canadian multinational Great-West Lifeco, were the original developers, and later also part-owners of the first full-scale city centre shopping centre, the Ilac Centre on Henry Street.  
  By 2012, few shop units remained in operation, and the once-popular shopping facility had come to function primarily as a pedestrian route between Abbey Street and the Luas stop, and Talbot Street.  A consultancy firm was engaged to study the situation and in an attempt to recover business, the centre was renamed in April 2013 as the Talbot Mall, as part of a broader rebranding which also saw some vacant units redesigned with 3D-visuals to look like prospective shops.  Permission was sought and obtained in 2016 to merge multiple retail units, and parts of the public mall space, into bigger shop units, and to add new toilet facilities.
caption: A view of the gardens located between buildings of the office complex, 2011
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