Two-Volume Novel: "An Irish Country Doctor"

Rob.doucette: Product was fine for my home library

Canada on Sep 26, 2023

VD: this is a very good relaxing read. I definitely see Brendan Gleeson playing Fingal....downright uncanny. Strongly recommend

United States on Aug 26, 2023

Amazon Customer: Good story. Reminds me of the book, the Country Doctor. Almost the exact same premise. Only that series of books is set in England in the early 70s

United States on Aug 24, 2023

as_bakshi: Some things in this book seem very old world and they are. But it is a very charming book set in a country with quaint names and phrases. I enjoyed it

India on Jun 17, 2023

Louise P: A very delightful book. Nice easy, enjoyable reading. It’s my book club choice for this month so it will be a lively discussion, I’m sure. I’d recommend this fun read, but I’m not sure I’ll read any of the sequels.

United States on Mar 29, 2023

Snow ❄ White: Although I had tagged this book MONTHS ago 📑 (which means I tagged the series) - I had decided that I would start reading whenever I had read my favorite author's books/series - AGAIN ! ( um ... make that again + again x 3.1416)
After all, it's a difficult jump 😔 to go from reading "the best author in the world" ... OK that means MY world 😇 , to start (sigh...) another author who might need 2B tossed upon the pile of hundreds of lackluster books that I usually finish (cuz ... ya know, it MIGHT just be a gem when I get near the end)
I dare put forth the opinion that U shall never think this author will be a waste of ur precious leisure.
I read & listened simultaneously (a pleasurable combo) so I shall add that the speaker was a grand person to hv been chosen for this book 💌

United States on May 21, 2022

Amazon Customer: a pleasure to read, both entertaining and descriptive. Loveable characters, interesting reflection on medical challenges and practices of the recent past, and rural life in the last century. I needed the relief and distraction of a lighter read, and found this more delightful than expected

Canada on Jan 07, 2021

Kindle Customer: I really enjoyed An Irish Country Doctor. The story takes place in Ulster. I didn't know much about this part of Ireland and I enjoyed learning more from the author who obviously loves it. Although I already knew what a GP did, I was charmed and entertained to read how involved country GPs were in their patients lives. The humour the author shows in describing the characters' personalities and actions is priceless! And to have Kinky, Dr O'Reilly's endearing cook, give us her recipes at the end is a stroke of genius! I truly enjoyed this Book 1 of the Irish Country Books series and I highly recommend it. I plan on reading the whole series!

Canada on Jul 07, 2020

E. F. Hutton: I purchased this book as a New Year's present for a friend of mine because I think it's an awesome book.

It's the first of the Irish Country series, where Dr. Barry Laverty is a new medical graduate from Queen's University in Belfast, who is off to apply for his first medical job working with Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly in a small town call Ballybucklebo. The book is hilarious as you get to meet the colourful characters of the town, along with Mrs. Kincaid "Kinky", the housekeeper to Dr. O'Reilly who is originally from the area of County Cork.

It is a book about small town life in Ireland in the summer of 1963, and where Dr. Laverty falls in love and gets his first taste of what life is like for a small town family doctor like Dr. O'Reilly, his mentor.

There are five books in the series and if you like this one, I would highly recommend reading the others as well. They all take place in the summer and fall of 1963, and the last one takes place in the winter of 1964.

Canada on Mar 06, 2011

Schtinky: It's 1964, and Dr. Barry Laverty, the ink barely dry on his degree, takes a job out in the country with Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly. The old doctor's reputation precedes him as, when Barry asks for directions to the doctor's residence in Ballybucklebo the young man he's asking flees away on his bicycle. Dr. O'Reilly is a big man with a florid face, who's nose turns alabaster when his temper is up. His surgery (Office) is attached to his house on Main Street, and ran by the irascible Mrs. Kinky Kincaid. Kinky is a battleship of a woman, "large and in charge" one might say. She runs the household and schedules the patients with iron determination, and cooks up irresistible meals. The household also consists of a daft, beer-drinking black Labrador named Arthur Guiness, and most recently a saucy white cat named Lady Macbeth.

Barry accepts the job as O'Reilly's assistant, and takes up residence in the attic room of the household. It was a time when country doctors still made house calls; a time when the degreed residents of the township (such as doctor, teacher, minister, priest, or town council) were looked up to as leaders of the community. Barry discovers his work with...

United States on Jan 10, 2009