Hidden City : Adventures and Explorations in Dublin

Karl Whitney's Hidden City is a brilliant portrait of Dublin that explores the places the city's denizens and tourists easily overlook. Described by Gorse as 'Dublin's best psychogeographer since James Joyce', Whitney takes us beyond the mythologized city to reveal hidden places and untold stories.

From the underground rivers of the Liberties to derelict sites once earmarked for skyscrapers in Ballsbridge, from the twenty Dublin homes once inhabited by Joyce to the beach at Loughshinny where raw sewage is pumped into the shallows of the Irish Sea, Whitney uncovers a Dublin—or a collection of Dublins—that we've never seen before, a city hiding in plain sight.

With soul, scholarship and insights aplenty, this captivating portrait offers a necessary corrective to heritage-influenced views of the past and present. As Colm Tóibín writes in the Guardian: '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.' A fascinating travelogue that will make you look at Dublin with fresh eyes.