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Format:
Book (regular print)
Title:
A Dublin student doctor
ISBN:
9780765326737
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Forge, 2011.
Physical Description:
492 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Series title(s):
General Note:
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Summary:
Patrick Taylor's devoted readers 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. Fingal and his fellow aspiring doctors face the arduous demands of Trinity College and Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital. The hours are long and the cases challenging, but Fingal manages to find time to box and play rugby and to romance a fetching, gray-eyed nurse named Kitty O'Hallorhan.
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