Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie OReilly made most readers acquaintance in Patrick Taylors 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. OReilly 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 OReilly Irish Country Stories. In this convenient volume, Patrick Taylors legions of devoted fans can savor the enchanting origins of the Irish Country series . . . and newcomers to Ballybucklebo can meet OReilly for the very first time.
