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Walking tour with Karl Whitney

Meeting point: Dublin Liberties Distillery

In ‘The Hidden Rivers of the Liberties’ from Hidden City, Karl Whitney brings us on a captivating tour of one of Dublin City’s oldest and most historic neighbourhoods, illuminating hidden places and untold stories. Join the author on a walk of the Liberties, learning about its underground rivers, history, city planning, and the sometimes invisible boundary lines that exist there.

Karl Whitney is the author of Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin and Hit Factories: A Journey Through the Industrial Cities of British Pop – both Guardian books of the week. He has worked as an editor at Penguin Classics and as a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at universities in the UK. His journalism has appeared in the Irish Times, the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books, and his essays have been published in the White Review, the Dublin Review and Gorse. His column about writing is published regularly in the Irish Examiner.