Language English Genre Historical drama | Publisher Tor Books | |
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Published February 6, 2007 – Present Media type Print (hardcover and paperback),
Audiobook Books An Irish Country Doctor, An Irish Country Village, An Irish country Christmas, An Irish Country Girl, An Irish Country Courtship | ||
The Irish Country Novels are an ongoing series of historical fiction books written by Patrick Taylor and published by Forge Books. The first book in the series, An Irish Country Doctor, was originally published as The Apprenticeship of Doctor Laverty by Insomniac Press in 2004, and became a New York Times bestseller in 2007. Several sequels in the series have also become international bestsellers, particularly in Canada, where Taylor has resided since 1970.
Set in Ballybucklebo, a fictional village in rural Northern Ireland, the series follows novice doctor Barry Laverty as he begins his assistantship at the practice of Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly. The sixth and eighth books of the series, A Dublin Student Doctor and Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor, explore the life of Dr. O'Reilly prior to the events of An Irish Country Doctor.