Feckless, unwashed, charming, penurious Sebastian Balfe Dangerfield, Trinity College law student, is an Irish American with an English accent, marooned in the ould country and dreaming of dollars and ready women, stumbles from public house to pawnbrokers, murmering delusive enticements in the ear of any girl who'll listen, in delerious search of freedom, wealth and the recognitio he feels is his due. Lyrical and ribald, illuminating, poignant and hugely entertaining, The Ginger Man is a work of authentic comic genius.