Patrick Taylor Books in Order

In December 1965, Ballybucklebo prepares for Christmas with carols, gifts, and feasts, but O'Reilly and Barry must also mend a family rift, manage a chickenpox outbreak, and help a gravely ill child hold on to the magic of the season.

As the 1960s draw to a close, Barry and Sue await their first child and a posh new trainee joins the practice, while Ballybucklebo faces questions of interfaith marriage, changing times, and the everyday mix of accidents, illnesses, and village celebrations.

Weaving between Barry's grueling internship years and his later life in Ballybucklebo, this novel shows how early hospital training, first love, and hard choices shaped the compassionate family doctor readers know, as the village pulls together around new challenges.

When a devastating fire destroys Donal Donnally's thatched cottage, Doctors O'Reilly and Laverty mobilize Ballybucklebo to rebuild his home, even as they navigate questions of fertility, risky pregnancies, and the first rumblings of political unrest in Ulster.

With trainee doctor Connor Nelson and a boisterous Labrador pup joining Number One Main Street, O'Reilly's growing practice tackles everything from a troubling pattern of household injuries to a colleague's relapse, while Barry wonders if he's ready for fatherhood.

Part cookbook, part story collection, this volume pairs more than 140 traditional Irish recipes with new tales narrated by housekeeper Kinky Kincaid, offering food, folklore, and glimpses of everyday life in Ballybucklebo's kitchens and dining rooms.

In the snowy winter of 1967, Barry and his fiancée Sue make plans for married life while O'Reilly fights to save his beloved house and surgery, and the villagers rally around an elderly man searching for his missing dog.

Serving as a Royal Navy surgeon during World War II, Fingal O'Reilly faces peril at sea and fragile moments in hospital wards, even as his love for midwife‑in‑training Deirdre deepens and echoes forward into his quieter years back in Ballybucklebo.

This collection gathers the original humorous sketches that first introduced Dr. Fingal O'Reilly, portraying his early days as Ballybucklebo's crafty general practitioner as he spars with hypochondriacs, dense colleagues, and assorted village eccentrics.

Alternating between World War II and the 1960s, this novel follows Fingal O'Reilly from the brutal realities of serving as ship's doctor on HMS Warspite to his later life in Ballybucklebo, where old secrets still trouble an otherwise busy practice.

This short story looks back to Dr. O'Reilly's arrival in Ballybucklebo, following his sometimes rocky attempts to win over wary villagers and prove that his blunt manner hides a sharp mind and a genuinely kind heart.

Newly married to his long‑lost sweetheart, Dr. O'Reilly juggles domestic life and demanding patients in Ballybucklebo, while flashbacks reveal his gritty early years as a young doctor serving the impoverished tenements of Dublin.

As Dr. O'Reilly finally prepares to marry Kitty O'Hallorhan, he and Barry race between wedding plans and work, helping patients, rescuing a young couple's housing hopes, and even defending a much‑maligned cat in their lively corner of Ulster.

In 1930s Dublin, ambitious Fingal O'Reilly defies his father to study medicine, juggling brutal hours at Trinity College and Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital with rugby, boxing, and a complicated romance with student nurse Kitty O'Hallorhan.

With partnership in sight, Barry begins to doubt his future in Ballybucklebo after a romantic setback, while Dr. O'Reilly tentatively opens his heart to Kitty O'Hallorhan amid the usual mix of eccentric patients and village squabbles.

In this standalone tale, housekeeper Kinky Kincaid remembers her youth as Maureen O'Hanlon in rural County Cork, where first love, family hardship, and an uncanny gift for seeing the spirit world shape the woman who will one day keep O'Reilly's house.

Settled into Ballybucklebo, Barry is shattered when a patient dies and a grieving widow threatens to sue, forcing him and Dr. O'Reilly to fight for his reputation while also protecting the village pub from a ruthless developer.

Barry looks forward to his first Christmas in Ballybucklebo until news that his sweetheart may not come home and the arrival of a rival doctor with dubious cures turn the festive season into a tangle of medical and personal crises.

Set in 1983, this novel revisits former IRA bomb‑maker Davy McCutcheon and his lost love Fiona Kavanagh, tracing how an earlier act of violence still binds them as new plots, prison tensions, and family ties pull them toward an uncertain reckoning.

Young Dr. Barry Laverty arrives in the tiny village of Ballybucklebo, eager for his first job in general practice, and finds himself learning hard lessons about medicine, compassion, and small‑town politics under the gruff mentorship of Dr. Fingal O'Reilly.

In 1973 Belfast, British Army bomb‑disposal officer Marcus Richardson accepts an undercover mission to infiltrate the Provisional IRA, bringing him into dangerous contact with skilled armourer Davy MacCutcheon and forcing both men to question what their loyalties really mean.

Linked stories set during the Troubles explore the lives of ordinary men and women in Ulster, following friendships across sectarian lines and showing how bombings, patrols, and sudden loss reshape families who are trying simply to endure.

An illustrated history of the narrow‑gauge West Clare Railway, this book traces the line from early proposals through construction, daily operations, comic mishaps, and eventual closure, giving railway enthusiasts a detailed portrait of a vanished Irish route.