"Books can be an atlas in your mind"
Jun 22, 2025•10 min
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Episode description
Poet and author Dermot Bolger talks to Dearbhail about books that transport the reader to far flung places and beautiful shores; from Colm Tóibin's evocation of the sizzling heat of Brooklyn, New York in 'Brooklyn', to the historic Italian costal city of Trieste with Jan Morris' acclaimed book 'Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere'.
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