In 1947, some three million Irishmen lived and worked in British Isles; only a few less than the ones they left behind in Eire. This book relates hilarious misadventures of the Delaneys; those boys left behind, and their long-time absentee father, Pat 'Paid-on-Friday-Broke-by-Monday', who lives, works and drinks his Liffey Water in Shepherds Bush.