The Life of Riley

Part of the Modern Irish Classic Series, a new series from New Island, putting twentieth-century Irish classics back on the shelves for a new readership. The first of the series includes acclaimed and well-loved authors Benedict Kiely, Anthony Cronin and Dermot Bolger.
 
Written in the 1960s, Anthony Cronin’s comic novel Life of Riley centres around the literary scene in Dublin in the 1950s, and follows occasional poet Riley’s misadventures after he quit his job as assistant to the secretary of a Dublin grocers’ association, in favour of beggardom.