Hidden city
Subtitle: adventures and explorations in Dublin
By: Karl Whitney
Publisher: Penguin Ireland
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781844883127; 9780241966129; 9781844883134
Subjects: Travel; Description and travel
Description: Dublin is a city much visited and deeply mythologized. Versions of its shabby grandeur live on vividly in the works of its great novelists and playwrights; and the booom and bubble years of the 2000s created a fresh myth of prosperity and a patina of modernity. Its most-visited tourist attraction is a brewery owned by a UK multinational; its most-photographed statue depicts the fictional subject of a song, Molly Malone ... Karl Whitney ... explores the places the city's denizens easily overlook, and unearths stories of the sort that the tourist board would prefer visitors not hear. He shows us a Dublin - or a collection of Dublins - that we've never before seen. Hidden City is a fond but searching portrait of a place that has been hiding in plain sight"--Publisher's description.
Table of contents: title: " ... By foot, bike, bus, train and tram; in the sewers and underground rivers; along the edges and behind the hoardings"; title: dust jacket.-Also available electronically.