Before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O<U+2019>Reilly made most readers<U+2019> acquaintance in Patrick Taylor<U+2019>s bestselling novel An Irish Country Doctor, he appeared in a series of humorous columns. These warm and wryly amusing vignettes provide an early glimpse at the redoubtable Dr. O<U+2019>Reilly as he tends to the colourful and eccentric residents of Ballybucklebo, a cozy Ulster village nestled in the bygone years of the early sixties.