J.P. Donleavy's Ireland: In All Her Sins and in Some of Her Graces
| By: | J. P. Donleavy |
| Publisher: | Viking Press |
| Published: | May 1986 |
| Pages: | 223 |
| Categories: | Autobiography |
| Language: | English |
| Available as: | Hardback |
| On sale at: | www.penguin.com |
Follow a youthful J. P. Donleavy on a Trinity student odyssey through the Dublin of the 1940s and 1950s
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