Dublin Hidden Gems Walking Tour + Map: Secret Gardens, Old Crypts and Georgian Backstreets
Most people do Dublin in a straight line. Trinity, Book of Kells, Grafton Street, Temple Bar, Guinness, done by teatime, home with a fridge magnet. And fair enough, those places are famous for a reason. But the city I keep coming back to is the one running parallel to all that, about two streets over, where nobody’s queuing for anything.
This walk is that Dublin. A canal towpath at the start, a walled garden almost nobody finds, a library from 1707 where readers used to get locked in cages with the rare books, a church crypt with mummified bodies you can still visit, and a Georgian street that went from the grandest address in the city to one of the poorest in about a hundred years. It’s roughly 6.2km end to end, and it links up properly on foot. No taxis, no daft doubling back, no “and now walk 40 minutes for a plaque”.
I’ve built it as a full day, but it’s a soft full day. Loads of it is free. Half of it is outdoors. If it lashes rain, and it will at some point because that’s Dublin, there’s a library, a museum, a crypt and a covered Victorian market on the route to duck into. That’s not an accident.
If this is your first time in the city and you’ve not done the big-name stuff yet, do that first. I’ve got a separate full Dublin walking tour covering the classic sights which handles Trinity, the castle, the cathedrals and Grafton Street. This one is the follow-up. Or the antidote, depending on how you felt about Temple Bar on a Saturday night.
Two things worth sorting before you land. Some of the stops here run on booked slots or short opening hours, so if you want a guide to do the heavy lifting on the history, browse small group Dublin walking tours on GetYourGuide or have a look at day tours and crypt visits through Viator. And if you’re landing at Dublin Airport, a pre-booked airport transfer into the city centre saves you the bus-stop shuffle with a suitcase.
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Dublin Hidden Gems Walking Tour: Quick Facts at a Glance
- Start point: Portobello Bridge on the Grand Canal, a few minutes from the Charlemont tram stop
- End point: Henrietta Street, the oldest Georgian street in the city
- Distance: Around 6.2km (3.9 miles), plus whatever you add getting sidetracked
- Walking time: 5 to 6 hours with proper stops. Give it a full day if you want to sit down and eat
- Best for: Repeat visitors, history nerds, anyone who's already done Trinity and Temple Bar
- Best time to go: Tuesday to Saturday, starting around 10am. Sundays and Mondays close a lot of these doors
- Difficulty: Easy. Flat the whole way, though the cobbles around the Liberties and Smithfield are rough underfoot
- Main sights: Iveagh Gardens, Whitefriar Street Church, Marsh's Library, St Audoen's, Chester Beatty, Dubh Linn Garden, St Michan's crypt, Henrietta Street
- Cost: Most of the route is free. Marsh's Library, St Michan's crypt and 14 Henrietta Street are the paid ones
- Food and drink stop: George's Street Arcade around the halfway mark, or Smithfield near the end
- Map style: Free Google Map, pinned further down this article
Hidden Dublin, Ireland Walking Tour
The shape of this one is simple. You start on the canal at the southern edge of the centre, work north and west through the Georgian squares and the Liberties, cut through the back of Dublin Castle, cross the Liffey at the quiet end of Temple Bar, and finish on the north side. Everything is walkable, everything joins up, and the busiest street you’ll touch is about ninety seconds long.
One bit of honesty before you set off. This route has more indoor stops than a standard sightseeing walk, so opening days matter more than usual. Tuesday to Saturday is your safest window. Go on a Sunday and you’ll still have a lovely walk, you’ll just be looking at a few closed doors along the way.
Stop 1: Portobello and the Grand Canal
Start point, so no distance to cover yet. Give it 25 to 40 minutes.
Portobello Bridge is a proper Dublin opening scene and almost nobody uses it as one. The Grand Canal cuts a green line across the south of the city, and this stretch has swans, lock gates that still work, benches full of people eating lunch out of paper bags, and a run of tall red-brick houses along the water that look like they belong in a different city entirely. The big cream building above the lock is the old Portobello House, once a hotel for canal passengers back when the canal was how you got to the middle of Ireland.
Walk the towpath a little in either direction before you head north. It’s the calmest ten minutes you’ll get all day, and it sets the tone. The canal is also where Dublin does its poetry, quietly: Patrick Kavanagh wrote about these banks, and there’s a memorial seat to him further east near Baggot Street if you fancy a detour first. Portobello itself has turned into one of the better parts of town for coffee, so caffeinate here before the walking starts properly.
Things to do:
- Walk 10 minutes of towpath in either direction from the bridge
- Watch the lock gates, especially if a boat happens to be going through
- Grab a coffee on Richmond Street South or Portobello Road before you set off
- Photograph the red-brick terraces reflected in the water on a still morning
Canal note: The towpath surface changes from smooth to gravelly and back again along this stretch, and it puddles badly after rain. Trainers rather than anything you care about, and stick to the bridge side if it’s been wet.
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Stop 2: Iveagh Gardens
About 900m from Stop 1, roughly 12 minutes north via Harcourt Street. Give it 30 to 45 minutes.
People walk past the entrance to the Iveagh Gardens for years without going in, which is exactly why it’s still good. St Stephen’s Green gets the crowds and the postcards. This place, tucked behind the National Concert Hall with entrances that feel more like side doors than gates, gets a fraction of the footfall for a garden that is arguably more interesting. Designed by Ninian Niven and opened in the 1860s, it mixes French formality with something wilder round the edges.
The showpiece is a cascade waterfall built using rock from every county in Ireland, which is a lovely bit of Victorian showing off. There’s also a sunken lawn, a rosarium, an archery ground and a yew maze that people mostly walk past because it doesn’t announce itself. My advice is to do a full slow lap rather than cutting through. It takes twenty minutes and you’ll see about three other people doing the same thing.
Things to do:
- Find the cascade waterfall and read the county rock detail up close
- Walk the yew maze, which is small but genuinely charming
- Sit on the sunken lawns for ten minutes and do absolutely nothing
- Look for the archery grounds and the rustic grotto near the back wall
Free entry: The gardens cost nothing to visit, but the gates lock earlier than you’d expect, especially in winter, and they close entirely for a few days a year when concerts take over. Check the posted times on the gate as you go in so you’re not the person getting whistled at.
Stop 3: Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church
About 700m from Stop 2, roughly 9 minutes west. Give it 20 to 30 minutes.
From the outside this is an unremarkable church on an unremarkable street, wedged between shops, easy to walk straight past. Inside it holds relics of Saint Valentine, sent to Dublin by Pope Gregory XVI in the 1830s and kept in a shrine on the side of the nave. On the fourteenth of February the queue goes out the door. Every other day of the year you can walk right up to it, usually alone, which is a strange and quite moving thing.
The other treasure here is easy to miss. Our Lady of Dublin is a medieval oak statue that survived the dissolution of the monasteries, apparently by being hollowed out and used as a pig trough for a couple of centuries before someone recognised what it was. She’s now back in the church, blackened and worn, and the story alone is worth the stop. Light a candle or don’t, but do take the two minutes to look at her properly.
Things to do:
- Find the Saint Valentine shrine on the right-hand side of the church
- Look for the medieval oak statue of Our Lady of Dublin
- Sit at the back for five minutes, it’s one of the quietest rooms in the city centre
- Have a wander down Aungier Street afterwards for the old shopfronts
Local legend: Dubliners will tell you couples still come here to have rings blessed at the Valentine shrine. It happens quietly and without ceremony most weeks of the year, which I think is far nicer than the February scrum.
Stop 4: Marsh's Library and St Patrick's Park
About 700m from Stop 3, roughly 9 minutes southwest along Kevin Street. Give it 45 to 60 minutes.
This is my favourite room in Dublin and I’ll happily argue about it. Marsh’s Library opened in 1707, making it the first public library in Ireland, and it has barely been touched since. Dark oak bookcases, original shelving, thousands of volumes still in the spots they were put in three centuries ago. At the back are the wired reading cages, where readers who wanted to handle the rare books were locked in with them. Not a reconstruction. The actual cages.
Look closely at some of the older books and you’ll find bullet damage from the 1916 Rising, when fighting spilled across this part of the city. Next door, St Patrick’s Park is the green space beside the cathedral and it’s the right place to sit down afterwards, with a wall of plaques honouring Irish writers along one side. Most visitors photograph the cathedral from the park and leave without ever noticing the library door twenty metres away.
Things to do:
- See the wired reading cages at the far end of the second gallery
- Ask staff to point out the books with bullet damage from 1916
- Read the Literary Parade plaques along the edge of St Patrick’s Park
- Photograph St Patrick’s Cathedral from the park rather than the road, it’s a far better angle
Book fact: Jonathan Swift was a regular reader here while he was Dean of St Patrick’s next door, and some of the library’s copies still carry his handwritten notes in the margins. He was not always complimentary about the authors.
Related Read: Never done the headline sights? Start with my classic Dublin walking tour route and map, which covers Trinity College, Dublin Castle, the cathedrals and Grafton Street. The two routes overlap by about one street, so you can do both on separate days without repeating yourself.
Stop 5: St Audoen's Church and the Last City Gate
About 600m from Stop 4, roughly 8 minutes northwest up Nicholas Street. Give it 25 to 35 minutes.
Halfway up High Street there’s a set of stone steps dropping away from the pavement, and at the bottom of them sits the only surviving gate of medieval Dublin’s city walls. St Audoen’s Arch dates from the thirteenth century and it is completely unmarked in any meaningful way. People walk over the top of it all day. You can stand underneath, put a hand on the stone, and be touching the actual edge of the walled city.
The church above it is Dublin’s oldest surviving medieval parish church and it’s still in use, with a small free visitor centre in the older section run by the heritage service. Inside there’s a font from the twelfth century and a slab known as the lucky stone that’s been kicking around the site for something like a thousand years, stolen and recovered more than once. It’s a genuinely strange, atmospheric corner and it’s usually empty.
Things to do:
- Walk down the steps and stand under St Audoen’s Arch
- Follow the surviving section of city wall along Cook Street below
- Go into the free visitor centre and find the lucky stone
- Look at the twelfth century font, still in use for baptisms
Stone fact: Cook Street below the arch holds the longest continuous stretch of Dublin’s medieval city wall still standing. It’s about as unglamorous a spot as you’ll find, backing onto a car park, and that’s exactly why nobody’s ever there.
Stop 6: Chester Beatty Library and the Dubh Linn Garden
About 700m from Stop 5, roughly 9 minutes east along High Street and Lord Edward Street. Give it 60 to 90 minutes.
Thousands of people tour Dublin Castle every day and walk straight past one of the best small museums in Europe, which sits in the castle grounds and costs nothing. The Chester Beatty holds the collection of a mining millionaire who spent decades buying manuscripts, and the result is a bit ridiculous: some of the oldest surviving biblical papyri anywhere, illuminated Qurans, Chinese jade books, Japanese scrolls, Persian miniatures. It’s beautifully laid out and never feels crowded.
Head out the back afterwards to the Dubh Linn Garden, a circular lawn behind the castle mown into a pattern of Celtic sea creatures that you can only really read from above. This is the site of the black pool that gave the city its name, which makes it one of the oldest meaningful patches of ground in Dublin. There’s a roof garden on the library too, worth the stairs on a dry day for the view over the castle.
Things to do:
- Work through the Sacred Traditions gallery slowly, it’s the strongest room
- Go up to the roof garden for the castle view
- Walk the Dubh Linn Garden and pick out the Celtic pattern in the grass
- Use the library cafe for lunch, it’s better value than anywhere on Dame Street
Quiet corner: If the castle courtyard is heaving with tour groups, cut through to the Dubh Linn Garden and keep going to the far side. There are benches back there facing the old Coach House and I’ve had the whole lawn to myself on a summer afternoon.
Stop 7: George's Street Arcade and the Long Hall
About 450m from Stop 6, roughly 6 minutes east. Give it 30 to 45 minutes.
The arcade is a red-brick Victorian market hall from the 1880s and it’s one of the last of its kind left in the city. Records, secondhand books, vintage clothes, a fortune teller, a couple of very good food counters, all under a glass roof with the noise bouncing around. It’s a working market rather than a heritage exercise, so it’s slightly scruffy and all the better for it. This is your natural lunch stop if you skipped the Chester Beatty cafe.
Two doors down is the Long Hall, a Victorian pub with a mahogany bar, chandeliers, ornate mirrors and a wall of clocks that all disagree with each other. It’s protected as much for the interior as anything else, and it stays properly good because locals still drink there. Go in the afternoon rather than the evening if you want to actually see the room. Two streets over on Drury Street and South William Street you’ll find the newer end of Dublin, all coffee and small shops, if you fancy a browse.
Things to do:
- Dig through the record and secondhand book stalls in the arcade
- Eat at one of the food counters inside rather than sitting down elsewhere
- Have one pint in the Long Hall in daylight, when you can see the interior
- Wander Drury Street and Castle Market for the shopfronts and street art
Pub rule: A pint of stout takes about two minutes to settle and pour properly in two stages. Do not hover at the bar looking impatient while it sits there half full. Pay, step back, wait. It’s a small thing and locals notice.
Stop 8: Sunlight Chambers and Cow's Lane
Right at the bottom of the Crescent lawn, no real distance to cover. Suggested time to spend: 30 minutes or longer if the weather’s kind.
The walk ends here, in the green space that gives the Royal Crescent its famous open view. Royal Victoria Park opened in 1830 and was, rather nicely, formally opened by an 11-year-old Princess Victoria, years before she became queen, which makes it one of the earliest public parks named after her anywhere. There’s a botanical garden tucked into one corner, a bandstand, and plenty of grass to just collapse onto after a day of climbing Bath’s hills. Looking back up at the Crescent from down here, with the whole curve laid out above the lawn, is honestly one of the best views of the entire route, and a properly satisfying way to close out the day.
Things to do:
- Turn around and take in the full view of the Crescent from the park side
- Wander into the Botanical Gardens if you’ve still got the legs for it
- Find a bench or a patch of grass and just sit with it for a while
- Plan your walk back down into town, or call it a day and head for a well-earned drink
Reality check: By this point you’ve climbed a proper hill and covered several kilometres on stone pavements, so if your feet are done, they’re done. There’s no shame in getting a taxi or a bus back down into town instead of walking it. Bath will still be there tomorrow.
Stop 9: St Michan's Church and the Crypt
About 900m from Stop 8, roughly 12 minutes northwest across Grattan Bridge and along the quays. Give it 45 to 60 minutes.
Right, this is the odd one. St Michan’s was founded in 1095 and the church you see now is mostly seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the reason to come is underneath it. The vaults hold a number of mummified bodies, preserved by the limestone walls and the dry air, and you can go down and see them on a guided tour. The best known is a tall figure nicknamed the Crusader, whose hand people used to be allowed to touch for luck before the practice was stopped.
It sounds ghoulish written down and it isn’t, particularly. The guides handle it well, the history is genuinely interesting, and you come back up into daylight on Church Street feeling like you’ve seen something very few visitors bother with. There’s also an organ in the church that tradition says Handel played while he was in Dublin preparing the first performance of Messiah. Smithfield is five minutes away when you’re done, which is where I’d stop for a coffee.
Things to do:
- Take the guided crypt tour, which is the only way to get down there
- See the organ upstairs and ask about the Handel connection
- Look at the Stool of Repentance in the church, used for public penance
- Walk five minutes to Smithfield Square afterwards for coffee and a sit down
Watch out: Crypt tours run to a limited timetable and the vaults have closed to visitors before after damage, so check the church’s own site the week you travel rather than turning up hopeful. Steep steps and low headroom down there too, so it doesn’t suit everyone.
Stop 10: Henrietta Street (Finish)
About 700m from Stop 9, roughly 9 minutes north via Bolton Street. Give it 45 to 90 minutes.
Henrietta Street is the finish and it’s the stop that stays with people. Laid out in the 1720s by the developer Luke Gardiner, it was the grandest address in Dublin, huge Georgian houses built for the aristocracy on a scale the city hadn’t seen. Within a century and a half the money had moved and those same houses were carved into tenements, with dozens of families crammed into rooms that had been ballrooms. One house on the street is said to have held around a hundred people.
Number 14 is now a museum telling that whole arc, from the aristocrats to the tenement families, and the tours are booked in advance and led by people who know the social history properly. The street itself is short, cobbled, closed at one end by the old King’s Inns, and eerily quiet for somewhere five minutes from O’Connell Street. Even if the museum is booked out, stand at the bottom and look up it. It’s the best-preserved Georgian street in the city and it doesn’t feel like anywhere else in Dublin.
Things to do:
- Book the 14 Henrietta Street tour in advance, it sells out and walk-ups rarely work
- Walk the full length of the cobbles to the King’s Inns gates at the top
- Look at the doorcases and fanlights, which vary house to house
- Cut through the King’s Inns park afterwards to come out on Constitution Hill
Reality check: The Henrietta Street tour is not a light way to end a day out. It deals with poverty, overcrowding and child mortality in real detail, using the stories of people who actually lived in that house. Worth doing, but go in knowing that, and leave yourself somewhere gentle to sit afterwards.
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Where To Stay For This Dublin Hidden Walking Tour
Dublin’s centre is small enough that almost anywhere south of the canal or west of O’Connell Street puts you within half an hour of this whole route on foot. What changes is the character of your evenings, and on that front the neighbourhoods are wildly different.
Portobello and the canal: My pick for this walk, because you’d start the route outside your front door. Quiet residential streets, red brick, a strong run of cafes and neighbourhood restaurants, and a fifteen minute stroll into town. Best for repeat visitors who want to feel like they live there.
The Liberties: Old Dublin, still a bit rough round the edges in places, and much more interesting for it. You’re close to Marsh’s Library, St Audoen’s and the distilleries, and prices tend to be gentler than the centre. Good for anyone who wants history on the doorstep.
Stoneybatter and Smithfield: The north side option, walkable to St Michan’s and Henrietta Street, with terraced streets, decent coffee and a couple of properly good pubs. It suits people who like a neighbourhood feel and don’t mind a fifteen minute walk over the river.
The Georgian core around Merrion Square: Handsome, central and calm at night, with the big national museums a few minutes away. Pricier and a bit formal, but if you want the classic Dublin doorway view from your window, this is where it lives.
Temple Bar: Honest answer, I’d avoid it unless you’re here for the nightlife and plan to be part of it. It’s noisy until very late, weekends especially, and everything costs more inside those few blocks. Two streets away you get the same location for less money and far more sleep.
Related Read: Travelling on your own? My guide to visiting Dublin as a solo traveller goes deeper on neighbourhoods, transport cards and which pubs are comfortable to walk into by yourself. It pairs well with this route.
Pit Stops & Side Detours
The route above is already a full day, so treat these as swaps rather than additions. Each one sits close enough to a stop that you can slot it in without wrecking the flow, and a couple of them are worth building a separate morning around if you’ve got the days.
- Sweny’s Pharmacy, Lincoln Place: A Victorian chemist frozen exactly as it was, kept alive by volunteers who run daily readings from Joyce. They still sell the lemon soap Leopold Bloom buys in Ulysses. Ten minutes east of Stop 7 and completely free, though a donation is the decent thing.
- Blessington Street Basin: A former city reservoir turned into a small walled park, known locally as the secret garden. Eight minutes from Henrietta Street, so an easy add-on at the end if you’ve got legs left.
- Patrick Kavanagh’s seat, Wilton Terrace: The memorial bench on the canal near Baggot Street Bridge. Add it before Stop 1 if you want the poetry angle, and walk the towpath west from there to Portobello.
- The Museum of Literature Ireland at Newman House: Sits on the south side of St Stephen’s Green, five minutes from the Iveagh Gardens. Excellent, modern, and a good rain plan.
- Francis Street in the Liberties: A run of antique and junk shops with a proper rummaging quality to them. Five minutes from Stop 5 and a nice contrast to all the medieval stonework.
- Glasnevin Cemetery and the Gravediggers pub: Genuinely one of the best things in Dublin, but it’s a bus ride north and deserves its own half day. Pair the guided cemetery tour with a pint next door in John Kavanagh’s.
Skip: The Molly Malone statue queue. It’s a five minute detour to photograph a statue with twenty people waiting to touch it. You’ll walk past it eventually anyway.
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Dublin food has changed a lot and the city is a great deal better at eating than its reputation suggests. That said, the stuff worth chasing on this particular route is mostly cheap, mostly unglamorous, and mostly within a few minutes of a stop. For more of my Ireland eating notes, have a dig through the destination guides.
- The toasted special in Grogan’s, South William Street: Ham and cheese on white bread, done in a sandwich press, served with a pint. It’s about as simple as food gets and it’s a Dublin institution. Two minutes from Stop 7.
- Leo Burdock, Werburgh Street: The old-school chipper near Christ Church. Cod and chips in paper, eaten standing up because there’s nowhere to sit. Handy between Stops 5 and 6 if you want lunch on the move.
- The Fumbally, Fumbally Lane: Big airy room in the Liberties doing good coffee and proper daytime food. Slight detour from Stop 4 and worth it if you want a real sit-down break in the middle of the walk.
- Coddle, if you can find it done well: The city’s own stew, sausages and bacon and potato in a pale broth. It divides people, including Dubliners. Try it once so you can have an opinion.
- Loose Canon on Drury Street: Tiny cheese and wine spot doing enormous toasties. Queue out the door at lunchtime for a reason. Right beside Stop 7.
- Blas Cafe, Smithfield: Set inside an old distillery building near St Michan’s, doing decent brunch and good bread. The natural stop after coming up from the crypt.
- The Cobblestone, Smithfield: Not food, but the best traditional music session in the city and no cover charge. Musicians play in the corner, everyone shuts up and listens. If you have one evening in Dublin, spend it here rather than Temple Bar.
Walking Tour Essentials
This is an easy walk on paper, flat the whole way, but the Irish weather and a few booked-slot museums can trip you up. A handful of small things make the difference between a lovely day and a soggy, locked-out one.
- A waterproof jacket, not an umbrella: Dublin rain arrives sideways and umbrellas turn inside out on the quays. A jacket with a hood you can actually pull up is the single most useful thing in your bag here. For how the seasons really behave, have a read of my notes on Dublin’s climate through the year.
- Shoes that handle cobbles: The Liberties, Cow’s Lane, Smithfield and Henrietta Street are all cobbled or setted, and some of it is uneven. Nothing with a thin sole, nothing brand new.
- Book the timed stops before you fly: Marsh’s Library, the St Michan’s crypt tour and 14 Henrietta Street all run on limited hours or booked slots. Sort them in advance, and if you’d rather have someone else handle the timings, browse guided Dublin tours and skip-the-queue tickets or check the Dublin day tour options on Viator.
- Avoid Sundays and Mondays if you can: Several stops on this route close on one or both. Tuesday to Saturday is the sweet spot and it costs you nothing to plan around it.
- A transport card for the ends of the day: The walk itself needs no transport, but a Leap card makes getting to Portobello in the morning and back from Henrietta Street in the evening painless. Cash fares on Dublin buses are a faff.
- Mobile data that actually works: You’ll want maps for the backstreets, and the bit between Stop 5 and Stop 6 is where people get turned around. An Airalo eSIM for Ireland sorts it in a couple of minutes if your home plan is useless abroad.
- Travel insurance, boring but non-negotiable: Cancelled flights, a twisted ankle on wet cobbles, a stolen phone on a busy quay. VisitorsCoverage travel insurance is what I point people towards, and it takes about five minutes to sort.
- Know your flight rights: Dublin gets its share of weather delays. If your flight is badly delayed or cancelled you may be owed compensation under EU rules, and you can check a delayed flight claim with CompensAIR rather than shrugging it off.
- Something to carry home: The record stalls in George’s Street Arcade and the antique shops on Francis Street are the two spots on this route where you’ll actually want to buy something. Leave a bit of bag space.
- Onward plans: If Dublin is the start of a bigger Ireland trip, you can compare trains and buses out of the city, and my 10-day Ireland road trip route picks up neatly from here. There’s more general kit and planning advice in my travel planning resources and travel tips.
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Related Read: Fancy doing this in another city? My full collection of self-guided walking tours follows the same format, all linked up on foot with a free map at the bottom of each one.
Small print: Opening days, ticket prices and tour timetables at Marsh’s Library, the Chester Beatty, St Michan’s and 14 Henrietta Street all change without much warning, and a couple of them close for parts of the week. Check each one’s own website in the days before you travel, particularly around Irish bank holidays.
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