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.