This event is part of the One Dublin One Book 2025 programme, an initiative of Dublin UNESCO City of Literature/Dublin City Libraries.
In Hidden City, Karl Whitney brings us on a captivating and eye-opening tour of Dublin, illuminating the many fascinating hidden places and untold stories of this deeply mythologised city, including the hidden rivers of Dublin’s Liberties. Join the author in conversation with writer Gavin Corbett.
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.
Gavin Corbett has written three novels: Innocence (Simon & Schuster, 2003), This Is the Way (4th Estate, 2013) and Green Glowing Skull (4th Estate, 2015). He has been writer-in-residence at Trinity College, UCD, the University of Galway and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. He lives in Dublin, and is passionate about its history, architecture and literature.
Location: The Dublin Liberties Distillery, 33 Mill Street D08 V221 Dublin 8
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