A Dublin Student Doctor: An Irish Country Novel (Irish Country Books)
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (715 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 076537739X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 576 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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“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
. He now lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia. After qualifying as a specialist in 1969, he worked in Canada for thirty-one years. Patrick Taylor, M.D., is the author of the Irish Country books, including An Irish Country Doctor, An Irish Country Village, An Irish Country Christmas, An Irish Country Girl, and An Irish C
Now, in A Dublin Student Doctor, Taylor turns back the clock to give us a portrait of the young Fingaland 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. Dublin is a city of slums and tenements, where brutal poverty breeds diseases that the limited medical knowledge of the time is often ill-equipped to handle. Fingal and his fellow aspiring doctors face the arduous demands of Trinity Coll
In for a Treat Carol A. Foose Patrick Taylor has become one of my new favorite authors. Always interesting, entertaining and funny. very enjoyable reading.. "excellent" according to Tom Wise. excellent. "Patrick Taylor about an Irish doctor" according to Rose M. Anable. I like Patrick Taylor. His writing is quite remarkable. He tells his story's as if he has lived them himself. I have several of his books that tell the story of an Irish doctor that has lived quite a life. I recommend these books to anyone who likes good clean interesting reading.