{"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\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Forge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780765338396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 4.80w x 0.90d","brand":"Patrick Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42531004678325,"sku":"9780765338396","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_839b0a22-f1ff-42b1-bd94-3dc2a158c42c.jpg?v=1669734967","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-wily-oreilly-irish-country-stories-9780765338396","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}