April 2010
ISBN 978-0-9803746-8-1
€14.95, $29.95 paperback
Slow Dublin
Salve for the soul, Slow Dublin is an inspirational lifestyle guide for Dubliners who want to live more and fret less. It celebrates all that's unique, local, natural, traditional and sensory in the fair city.
So rise up - in your own sweet time, of course - against the culture of speed and uniformity. Enjoy an afternoon toastie in the pub, tune into your senses, meet local artisans, buy green from a farmer, play rounders, collect seashells, recalibrate your clock, hug a tree, find silence, holiday at home, explore a cove and do, for jaysus sake, slow down and smell the roses.
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Praise for Slow Dublin
'Vibrant, humorous and beguiling … This is a book worth spending some time to get to know, just like the city that inspired it.' The Irish Times
Anto Howard
Photographs by Mark Chilvers and Rene Bruun
Anto Howard was born and raised in Blanchardstown, and has spent much of the last 10 years writing about Dublin and Ireland for international travel guides and publications such as Fodor's, the AA and National Geographic Traveller. He lives in a little house in the Liberties, where he writes plays, grows tomatoes and apples, and takes his time to...well, just takes his time. He did, of course, miss his deadline but by no more than we had allowed for.
Mark Chilvers specialises in portrait, travel and feature photography, and has been extensively published in more magazines and newspapers than is worth mentioning. He is also involved in community teaching programmes in south London as well as completing his Masters in documentary and photojournalism.
Rene Bruun is an Irish-born, Dublin-based photographer. He has been photographing his city for nearly two decades, and never leaves home without his camera. He has been widely published in various magazines, travel guides and newspapers as well as the National Geographic website.
