Hidden city - Karl Whitney

Karl Whitney'sHidden City: a brilliant portrait of Dublin

Dublin is a city much visited and deeply mythologized. InHidden City, Karl Whitney - who has been described byGorseas 'Dublin's best psychogeographer since James Joyce' - explores the places the city's denizens and tourists easily overlook.

Whitney finds 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 on the beach at Loughshinny, where he watches raw sewage being pumped into the shallows of the Irish Sea.

Hidden Cityshows 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 then 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 Tibn,Guardian

'Marvellous... The author's eye for observation is second to none ... Hidden City is a necessary corrective to a heritage-influenced view of the past and present: for Whitney reminds us that all our environments are human - created for and maintained by us, for good and ill'Daily Telegraph

'Thiscaptivatingurban tale has soul, scholarship and insights aplenty'Sunday Times

'Warm, charming, sharp and informative, thisbrilliantbook is an indispensable guide to contemporary Dublin'Sunday Business Post

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