A Dublin Student Doctor
An Irish Country Novel
- Publisher
- Tor/Forge
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2024
- Category
- Medical, Small Town & Rural, 21st Century
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780765326737
- Publish Date
- Oct 2011
- List Price
- $28.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780765326744
- Publish Date
- Sep 2012
- List Price
- $30.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781250332172
- Publish Date
- Mar 2024
- List Price
- $24.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780765377395
- Publish Date
- Feb 2015
- List Price
- $8.99
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Description
The beloved Irish Country series continues in A Dublin Student Doctor, a moving, deeply human story from New York Times, USA Today, and Globe and Mail bestselling author Patrick Taylor.
Doctor Fingal O'Reilly, the quarrelsome general practitioner of the small village of Ballybucklebo, wasn’t always the man he is today. Beloved author Patrick 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 arrives in Dublin to study medicine. The hours he dedicates to Trinity College and Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital are long and arduous, but Fingal manages to find time to box and play rugby—and to romance a fetching, gray-eyed nurse named Kitty O'Hallorhan.
Dublin is a harsh city, where brutal poverty breeds diseases that the limited medical knowledge of the time is often ill-equipped to handle. His teachers warn Fingal not to become too attached to his patients, but can he truly harden himself to the suffering he sees all around him—or can he find a way to care for his patients without breaking his own heart?
About the author
Patrick Taylor was born in 1941 in Bangor County Down, Northern Ireland. After medical and specialist training in Ulster, he emigrated to Canada in 1970 to pursue a career in academic medicine. He has held appointments at a number of universities and retired in 2001 to write and sail full-time. Now and in the Hour of Our Death is his fourth book of fiction. Taylor lives on Bowen Island, B.C., with his wife, Kate.
Editorial Reviews
“Taylor is a bang-up storyteller who captivates and entertains from the first word.” —Publishers Weekly on An Irish Country Girl
“Patrick Taylor has become probably the most popular Irish-Canadian writer of all time.” —The Globe and Mail
“Taylor masterfully charts the small victories and defeats of Irish village life.” —Irish America Magazine
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