Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor: An Irish Country Novel

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Tor Publishing Group, Oct 15, 2013 - Fiction - 432 pages

Discover how Dr. O'Reilly began his medical career in the tenements of Dublin in Patrick Taylor's New York Times bestselling series.

Fans of Taylor's bestselling Irish Country novels know Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly as the irascible senior partner of a general practice in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. Newly married to his long-lost sweetheart, he's ready to settle into domestic bliss, but there's always something requiring his attention, be it a riding accident, a difficult patient with a worrisome heart condition, a spot of grouse-hunting, or even some tricky shenanigans at the local dog races.

The everyday complications of village life are very different from the challenges Fingal faced nearly thirty years earlier, when, fresh out of medical school, the young Dr. O'Reilly accepts a post at the Aungier Street Dispensary, tending to the impoverished denizens of Dublin's tenement slums. Yet even as he tries to make a difference, Fingal's tireless devotion to his patients may cost him his own true love. . . .

Shifting back and forth between the present and the past, Patrick Taylor's captivating Fingal O'Reilly brings to life both the green young man O'Reilly once was and the canny village doctor readers have come to know and admire.

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Contents

Ill Give You Leave to Call Me Anything
God and the Doctor We Alike Adore
Im Not Even a Bus Im a Train
When the First Baby Laughed
Not All of These Can Sleep So Soundly
One Law for the Rich Another for the Poor
Ruinous and Old but Painted Cunningly
With Aching Hands and Bleeding Feet
In That Case What Is the Question?
Risk It on One Turn of Pitch and Toss
This Is the Happiest Conversation
And What Dread Feet
HearIt in the Deep Hearts Core
To Comfort and Relieve Them
Dance Dance Dance Till You Drop
Lilies That Fester Smell

Come My Lad and Drink Some Beer
Upon the Heath
One Comes to Meet Ones Friends
Any Mans Death Diminishes
His Personal Prejudices
Was Sick and Ye Visited
Bring Equal Ease unto My Pain
Skill in Surgery
The Little Fishes of the
The Clouds Ye So Much Dread
Like a Dog He Hunts in Dreams
So White O So Soft
In a Slither of Dyed Stuff
To Put Up with Rough Poverty
He Wept Full Well
We Will Pardon Thy Mistake
Evn Do as Other Widows
Want Work
Do Not Trust the Horse
The Heart No Longer Stirred
What Mad Pursuit?
Fathom Deep I Am in Love
Painful Vigils Keep
Upon the Walls of Thine House
Exulting on Triumphant Wings
Have Heard of Your Paintings
Part at Last Without a Kiss
Choose Thou Whatever Suits
Wind of Change Is Blowing
A Change of Heart
End Is Bitter as Wormwood
And Women Guide the Plot
A Broken Thing Mend
Words Are Also Actions
Keep Right on to the End of the Road
Authors Note
By Patrick Taylor
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PATRICK TAYLOR, M.D., was born and raised in Bangor, County Down, in Northern Ireland. Dr. Taylor is a distinguished medical researcher, offshore sailor, model-boat builder, and father of two grown children. He is the author of the beloved Irish Country novels, beginning with An Irish Country Doctor, as well as Pray For Us Sinners and its sequel, Now and in the Hour of Our Death, a duology centered around The Troubles. He now lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia.

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