Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin The

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Dublin is a city much visited and deeply mythologized. In Hidden City, Karl Whitney explores the zones the city's denizens and tourists easily overlook, finding hidden places and untold stories in underground rivers of the Liberties, on the derelict sites once earmarked for skyscrapers in Ballsbridge, in the twenty Dublin homes once inhabited by Joyce, and in innumerable other marginal zones and dark corners. Hidden City shows us a Dublin - or a collection of Dublins - that we've never seen before, a city hiding in plain sight.

'Ingenious and affectionate . . . It would be great if the Americans and the Germans who come to Dublin in large numbers, and claim to love the city, had Whitney's book in hand rather than, say, Ulysses, or some official guide book.' Colm Tóibín, Guardian

'Oh, how the capital has cried out for a book like this . . . a fascinating travelogue that will make you look at Dublin with fresh eyes.' Irish Independent

'Marvellous . . . The author's eye for observation is second to none.' Daily Telegraph

'This captivating urban tale has soul, scholarship and insights aplenty.' Sunday Times

'Whitney is clear-eyed and critical, but never cynical or ungenerous, and he has produced an idiosyncratic and surprisingly nostalgic homage to a sometimes filthy, always flawed, deeply lovable city.' Irish Times

'Warm, charming, sharp and informative, this brilliant book is an indispensable guide to contemporary Dublin.' Sunday Business Post