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An Irish doctor in peace and at war, Patrick Taylor

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An Irish doctor in peace and at war, Patrick Taylor

Language

eng

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maps

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

An Irish doctor in peace and at war

Oclc number

885207137

Responsibility statement

Patrick Taylor

Series statement

Irish country novel

Summary

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. Life in Ballybuckebo is a far cry from the strife of war, but over two decades later O'Reilly and his younger colleagues still have plenty of challenges: an outbreak of German measles, the odd tropical disease, a hard-fought pie-baking contest, and a local man whose mule-headed adherence to tradition is standing in the way of his son's future. Now older and wiser, O'Reilly has prescriptions for whatever ails... until a secret from the past threatens to unravel his own peace of mind.

Target audience

general

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Irish doctor in peace & at war

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