{"product_id":"the-wily-oreilly-irish-country-stories-9780765338396","title":"The Wily O'Reilly: Irish Country Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLong before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly made most readers' acquaintance in Patrick Taylor's bestselling novel \u003ci\u003eAn Irish Country Doctor, \u003c\/i\u003ehe appeared in a series of humorous columns originally published in \u003ci\u003eStitches: The Journal of Medical Humour\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Those seminal columns have been collected in \u003ci\u003eThe Wily O'Reilly: Irish Country Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Taylor, M.D.\u003c\/b\u003e, is the author of the Irish Country books, including \u003ci\u003eAn Irish Country Doctor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAn Irish Country Village\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAn Irish Country Christmas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAn Irish Country Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAn Irish Country Courtship\u003c\/i\u003e. Taylor was born and raised in Bangor, County Down, in Northern Ireland. After qualifying as a specialist in 1969, he worked in Canada for thirty-one years. He now lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Forge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50675015975186,"sku":"9780765338396","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1ba589d2-04f3-436d-a5aa-9f0a6b11c606.jpg?v=1733869505","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-wily-oreilly-irish-country-stories-9780765338396","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}