Dublin's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary But True Stories

Dublin's strangest events, people, locations, and traditions—an alternative travel guide to some of the city's best-kept secrets

The newest Strangest title from Portico is devoted to one of Ireland's most beautiful, and popular, cities; a city with more strangeness than you can shake a pint of Guinness at. These aren't the usual sights the tourists see, but rather the real Dublin, the strange and twisted nooks and crannies of the city's bizarre history. Home to two million people, the name, strangely, comes from the Irish "Dubh Linn," which means "Black Pool," but that name was already taken. This collection is a treasure trove of the hilarious, the odd, and the baffling—read on, if you dare!