Profile of a Regular Guest at Ariel House - A Biography of Patrick Taylor

At Ariel House we are proud to be the Dublin Home from Home of Author Patrick Taylor. Born in 1941 and brought up in Bangor, Co. Down, Patrick Taylor managed to hoodwink the examiners in Belfast in 1964 and London in 1969 to become a physician and then a specialist Ob/Gyn. He spent 37 years in Canada, 31 working in the field of human infertility, teaching at a series of universities and churning out a string of research papers, more remarkable for their quantity than quality. These led to a misapprehension that his chosen genre was science fiction…at least according to scientific peer reviewers. Because so many people laughed at his research (take Infertility Treatment in the Lowland Gorilla, [Gorilla G. Gorilla] as an example) in 1989 he turned his hand to writing humour columns for medical and sailing magazines, a pastime he follows to this day.
A book of short stories Only Wounded: Ulster Stories was published by Key Porter Books of Toronto in 1997, four years before he retired a Professor Emeritus to write full-time. Two techno-thrillers, Pray for Us Sinners, and the sequel Now and in the Hour of Our Death (Insomniac Press. Toronto. 2000 and 2005) were followed by the first three novels in the Irish Country series, An Irish Country Doctor (2007 Hard Back. 2008 Trade paper) and An Irish Country Village (2008 Hard Back 2009 Trade paper) and, An Irish Country Christmas (2008 Hard Back). The fourth An Irish Country Girl will be published by Tom Doherty and Associates. NY., NY., in spring 2010.
Irish Country Doctor a Book of the Month Club novel of the month has also been published in German, Dutch, Spanish, and will be released in Czech. It is in 11 languages as a Readers Digest select edition and Village has been condensed in 5.
Both Doctor and Village have been and will be released by Brandon Press here in Ireland.
When Country Doctor made NY Times best-seller in both editions teams of mental health workers were needed to help him deal with post-traumatic shock, a symptom of which is that in 2008 he returned to Ireland and, now lives in Cootehall, Co Roscommon, with his partner, award winning oil painter Dorothy Tinman.
He is presently working on the fifth book in the series in those moments when he is not staying in the Ariel or in one of the four local pubs enjoying the craic and giving truth to the old adage, “a bird cannot fly on one wing.”

For Further information see http://www.patricktaylor.ca/