In 1911, he finished high school with a gold medal, and joined the Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales where he earned his doctorate thesis with “El Ejecutivo Colegiado”.
He joined the Paraguayan delegation that traveled to Peru for the celebrations of the centennial of the battle of Ayacucho, where he delivered a speech expressing his gratitude for the Peruvian solidarity in the war of 65.
Because of their political beliefs adverse to the government, he endured the bitterness of exile and could return to the motherland with the assumption to power of the ruler Eusebio Ayala.
[1] Adriano Irala belonged to the romantic liberal generation, which according to the vision of Republican politician and writer Natalicio Gonzalez, Paraguay broke into the post-war "as an intellectual tragedy.
"[citation needed] Writer Carlos Zubizarreta called Irala "one of the purest and balanced minds of his generation".