Written by retired guard, JJ Flanelly, this book serves as a memoir to an Irish way of life that is almost extinct. JJ Flannelly, documents and discusses his life, growing up in Mayo in the 1930s, training as a guard in Dublin in the 1950s and working as a guard in the 1960s and beyond.

This book is a collection of stories that form a montage of a most interesting and well presented life.