The Wily O'Reilly
Subtitle: Irish country stories
By: Patrick Taylor
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780765338389; 9781466838871
Subjects: Country life; Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly (Fictitious character); Physicians (General practice); Fiction
Description: "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!"--
Notes: "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Table of contents: title: Introducing O'Reilly --; title: The Lazarus manoeuvre --; title: Galvin's ducks --; title: Kinky --; title: Troubles at the table --; title: Anatomy lesson --; title: Sunny disposition --; title: Well said, Sir --; title: Pregnant silence --; title: Working as equals --; title: Murphy's law --; title: Law of holes --; title: Men of the cloth (1) --; title: Men of the cloth (2) --; title: O'Reilly finds his way --; title: Powers of observation --; title: Stress of the moment --; title: O'Reilly's surprise --; title: Shock therapy --; title: Happy as a pig in . . . --; title: Barometer falling --; title: Flying doctor --; title: Forty shades of green --; title: G(h)astly mistake --; title: Blessed are the meek --; title: Matter of tact --; title: Cat's meow --; title: O'Reilly at the helm --; title: O'Reilly strikes back --; title: Word to the wise --; title: Dog days of winter --; title: In a pig's ear --; title: Arthur and the General --; title: Something happened --; title: Hell on wheels --; title: What's in a name? --; title: Fill'er up --; title: Curious affair --; title: Curiouser and curiouser --; title: Matter of time --; title: Last laugh --; title: Easy come, easy go --; title: Lateral thinking --; title: Flight of fancy --; title: Times are a-changing --; title: Sting --; title: Pipes of wrath.; title: Sam Slither --; title: Matchless experience --; title: Humble apology --; title: Patient who broke the rules --; title: Going to the dogs --; title: Meeting of the minds --; title: It's in the can --; title: Very pleasant evening . . . --; title: 'Tis the season to be jolly --; title: Just a wee deoch an' dorris --; title: What's in a name? --; title: What's in a name? (Part 2) --; title: Whisky in a jar --; title: O'Reilly put his foot in it --; title: O'Reilly's cat --; title: O'Reilly's dog --; title: O'Reilly's rival --; title: Smoking gun --; title: Ring around the rosies --; title: Jingle bells --; title: Home is the sailor.