The Wily O'Reilly : Irish country stories

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Label

The Wily O'Reilly : Irish country stories

Title remainder

Irish country stories

Statement of responsibility

Patrick Taylor

Title variation

Irish country stories

Creator

• Taylor, Patrick, 1941-

Subject

• Country life -- Northern Ireland -- Fiction
• O'Reilly, Fingal Flahertie -- Fiction
• O'Reilly, Fingal Flahertie, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
• Pastoral fiction
• Physicians (General practice) -- Fiction
• Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) -- Fiction
• Canadian fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Pastoral fiction
• Canadian fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"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."--

Member of

• Irish country novel ;
• Thorndike Press large print core series

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Series statement

An Irish country novel