Welcome to the Village of Ballybucklebo. Come and say hello to Dr. O�Reilly�s odd-as-two-left feet patients, his housekeeper, Mrs. �Kinky� Kinkaid, and O�Reilly�s pets, Arthur Guinness, the beer-swilling black Lab and Lady MacBeth, the demonically possessed white cat. And of course, to young Dr. Barry Laverty. After Barry�s first month as an assistant to crusty Dr. O�Reilly, he has been offered a permanent spot. But Laverty�s excitement is dashed when one of his patients unexpectedly dies. The damage to his reputation is enormous, and he and O�Reilly must work to resolve the question of Barry�s responsibility for the death. They also have to figure out how to save the four-hundred-year-old village pub. Plans are afoot to not renew the hundred-year lease and instead transform the old pub into a sparkling new tourist trap. To make matters even worse, Patricia Spence, the love of Barry�s life, announces she is trying to win a scholarship to distant Cambridge University, all the way in England.... Beautifully evocative of a gentler, simpler time, An Irish Country Village magically captures the charm, wit, and ribald humor of a vanished Irish countryside and its people.