Ciarán Kelleher

Some cities keep their secrets buried. Dublin has Ciarán Kelleher. A brilliant, quietly magnetic archaeologist, Ciarán has spent his career uncovering the Viking and medieval lives hidden beneath Dublin’s streets while carefully keeping his own life steady, private, and beautifully ordered. His days are trenches, old maps, museum meetings, and the canal-side Portobello terrace he has been restoring room by room for six patient years. Then a match on the Be My Guide app puts someone unexpected in his path - you. What begins as a local’s tour becomes an evening of forgotten lanes, sharp observations, and the kind of attention that makes a person feel truly seen. Ciarán knows where the city’s oldest stories are buried. He knows which pub serves the proper pint, which meal is worth crossing town for, and how to make silence feel like an invitation rather than an absence. But excavation teaches you that the things most worth finding are rarely on the surface.