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The Wily O'Reilly
- Irish Country Stories
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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Fans of Taylor's best-selling Irish Country novels know Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly as the irascible senior partner of a general practice in the colorful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. Newly married to his once 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.
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Great craic!
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A warm and heart warming book
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Lovely story!
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- An Irish Country Novel
- Written by: Patrick Taylor
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
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Fans of Taylor's best-selling Irish Country novels know Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly as the irascible senior partner of a general practice in the colorful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. Newly married to his once 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.
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- An Irish Country Novel
- Written by: Patrick Taylor
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 18 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly came to the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, young Surgeon-Lieutenant O'Reilly answered the call of duty to serve in World War II. Fingal just wants to marry his beloved Deirdre and live happily ever after. First, he must hone his skills at a British naval hospital before reporting back to the HMS Warspite, where, as a ship's doctor, he faces danger upon the high seas.
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Amazing!
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- An Irish Country Novel
- Written by: Patrick Taylor
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Long before Doctor Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly became a fixture in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, he was a young M.B. with plans to marry midwife Dierdre Mawhinney. Those plans were complicated by the outbreak of World War II and the call of duty. Assigned to the HMS Warspite, a formidable 30,000-ton battleship, Surgeon Lieutenant O’Reilly soon found himself face-to-face with the hardships of war, tending to the dreadnought’s crew of 1,200 as well as to the many casualties brought aboard.
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- An Irish Country Novel
- Written by: Patrick Taylor
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
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Patrick Taylor’s devoted readers and listeners know Doctor Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly as a pugnacious general practitioner in the quaint Irish village of Ballybucklebo. Now Taylor turns back the clock to give us a portrait of the young Fingal - and show us the pivotal events that shaped the man he would become. In the 1930s, fresh from a stint in the Royal Navy Reserve, and against the wishes of his disapproving father, Fingal O’Reilly goes to Dublin to study medicine.
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- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
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After less than a year, young Barry Laverty, M.B., is settling in to the village, with only a few months to go before he becomes a full partner in the practice. He's looking forward to becoming a fixture in the community, until an unexpected romantic reversal gives him second thoughts. Will he truly be happy tending to routine coughs and colds for the rest of his career? After all, even when a more challenging case comes along, like a rare tropical disease, all he can do is pass it on to a qualified specialist or big-city hospital. Is running a humble GP's shop all he wants out of life?
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- Narrated by: Terry Donnelly
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Fans of Patrick Taylor’s best-selling 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. But there was a time, shortly after arriving in Ballybucklebo, that Dr. O'Reilly was not widely accepted by the villagers. This touching short story tell of how O'Reilly, with a little help, began to overcome their objections.
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Another visit to Ballybucklebo!
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At the age of 22, Jennifer Worth left her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London’s East End slums. The colorful characters she met while delivering babies all over London - from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lived to the woman with 24 children who couldn't speak English to the prostitutes and dockers of the city’s seedier side - illuminate a fascinating time in history.
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- Written by: Patrick Taylor
- Narrated by: John Keating
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December 1965. ‘Tis the season once again in the cozy Irish village of Ballybucklebo, which means that Doctor Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly, his young colleague Barry Laverty, and their assorted friends, neighbors, and patients are enjoying all their favorite holiday traditions: caroling, trimming the tree, finding the perfects gifts for their near and dear ones, and anticipating a proper Yuletide feast complete with roast turkey and chestnut stuffing. There’s even the promise of snow in the air, raising the prospect of a white Christmas.
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Couldn’t be better!!!
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An Irish Country Wedding
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- Written by: Patrick Taylor
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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Love is in the air in the colourful Ulster village of Ballybucklebo, where Dr. Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly has finally proposed to the darling of his youth, Kitty O’Hallorhan. There’s a wedding to be planned, but before O’Reilly can make it to the altar, he and his young colleague, Barry Laverty, M.B., must deal with the usual round of eccentric patients—and crises both large and small. Being a G.P. in a place like Ballybucklebo often means more than simply splinting broken bones and tending to aches and pains.
Written by: Patrick Taylor
Publisher's Summary
Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly made most listeners’ acquaintance in Patrick Taylor's best-selling 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 '60s.
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!
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- Rebecca Aylard
- 2019-10-20
Not what I expected
I didn't love this book, I expected it to be stories about the real O'Reilly that I hadn't heard from the fictional novels previously. Plus, this is a fictional series, I just think this book doesn't really fit in.
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- creagan
- 2014-07-31
Had to shut it off!
If you are a fan of the series, don't bother with this one. The story does not continue from the others, the time frame doesn't fit with the other books, key characters are strangley non-existent and, bluntly, it's very boring.
7 people found this helpful
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- cheri
- 2016-04-30
Rehashed Material
I was disappointed that the material wasn't new for the most part, and that some of the stories were attributed to others not some of the characters I had grown to love.
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- lynn j armstrong
- 2018-01-19
Disappointing
What disappointed you about The Wily O'Reilly?
Found this very odd. Does not make sense if you have heard the other books and confusing.
What was most disappointing about Patrick Taylor’s story?
Doesn’t follow the series of books
Any additional comments?
I would like my money/credit back.
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- Kim-R
- 2022-12-14
Not my favorite
If you’ve listened to the books prior to this it’s a rehash of stories we’ve already heard. These are very short tales, some not told before but many have not. The names of many characters are different too.
I would recommend skipping this book.
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- Doug Wilkie
- 2017-04-29
Wily O'Reilly - Great Stories
Loved the whole series. Humour, easily followed, you want to know what is next. The characters are awesome and fit well together. O'Reilly makes the stories and Patrick Taylor is an awesome author and story teller.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2017-03-02
Still Very Enjoyable
Even though the characters are not fleshed out as well in this short subject collection, it still provides hours of wonderful narration and entertainment. I almost didn't purchase it but am glad that I did!
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- Lorraine D Collins
- 2016-08-26
Not what I hoped for
This book is a repeat of the stories found in An Irish Country Doctor. I feel as if I bought the same book twice.