Memoir Of An Irish Jew is the story of Lionel Cohen, who was born in 1922 into a Jewish family in Cork. Lionel served in the Irish Army, the British Merchant Navy, the Israeli Army and in the fledgling Israeli Merchant Navy.

He reluctantly returned to Ireland in 1952 to work in the family tailoring firm where he met his future wife May, a Catholic. The memoir covers his experiences at home and abroad, and the challenges of living in an Ireland very different to the Ireland of today.