The Wily O'Reilly: Irish Country Stories - Irish Country Books First edition

Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O?Reilly made most readers? acquaintance in Patrick Taylor?s bestselling novel An Irish Country Doctor, he appeared in a series of humorous columns originally published in Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humour.These warm and wryly amusing vignettes provide an early glimpse at the redoubtable Dr. O?Reilly as he tends to the colourful and eccentric residents of Ballybucklebo, a cozy Ulster village nestled in the bygone years of the early sixties.

Those seminal columns have been collected in The Wily O?Reilly: Irish Country Stories. In this convenient volume, Patrick Taylor?s legions of devoted fans can savor the enchanting origins of the Irish Country series . . . and newcomers to Ballybucklebo can meet O?Reilly for the very first time.

An ex-Navy boxing champion, classical scholar, crypto-philanthropist, widower, and hard-working general practitioner, Fingal Flahertie O?Reilly is crafty and cantankerous in these charming slices of rural Irish life. Whether he?s educating a naive man of the cloth in the facts of life, dealing with chronic hypochondriacs and malingerers, clashing with pigheaded colleagues, or raising a pint in the neighborhood pub, the wily O?Reilly knows a doctor?s work is never done, even if some of his ?cures? can?t be found in any medical text!