J. P. Donleavy

Feckless, unwashed, charming, penurious Sebastian Balfe Dangerfield, Trinity College Law student, Irish American with an English accent, marooned in the ould country and dreaming of dollars and ready women, stumbles from the public house to the pawnbroker's, murmuring delusive enticements in the ear of any girl who'll listen, in a delirious search of freedom, wealth, and the recognition he feels...