From Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen above to Here's To You, Jim Joyce, by Kevin McDermott.
Trieste is surrounded by limestone hills, and the wind sweeps down and blows across the wide piazzas. It’s an elegant city, built in white stone that catches the sun and faces the sea. We went there last summer on a kind of pilgrimage. Of course they weren’t meant to go there at all – Jim and Nora. Joyce thought he was heading to a job with the Berlitz school in Zurich. He’d paid two guineas to a Miss Gilford in the 'Midland Scholastic Agency’ in Lincolnshire. Unfortunately, Miss Gilford was not an agent for Berlitz and Jim was duped...
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