{"product_id":"9780765338396","title":"The Wily O'Reilly: Irish Country Stories","description":"\u003cp\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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn 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!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tom Doherty Associates","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47029698298096,"sku":"9780765338396","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780765338396_p0.jpg?v=1763802424","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780765338396","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}