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My Father's Wake

My Father's Wake

How The Irish Teach Us to Live, Love and Die

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Kevin can be contacted on kevin@myfatherswake.com

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My Father's Wake1 year ago

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The Wonders of the Wake with Kevin Toolis

Admission: £14 | BOOK HERE The Wonders of the Wake is a unique celebration of one of the oldest rites of humanity, the Irish Wake: in song, music, bardic poetry and story-telling. From the ancient Neolithic graves on Achill Island on the Atlantic seaboard, to...

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My Father's Wake2 years ago

#LifeLessonsoftheIrishWake We live half in the future;this day followed by tomorrow, next month, next year, expecting the world to go on and time to flow onwards. But time is more like a tide flowing in and flowing out of the same shore, sometime...

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My Father's Wake2 years ago

3.5 million views on Facebook across the globe. A signal - the eternal rite of the Irish Wake shall never cease nor fall into ruin without the mother of battles from those who believe in the last best hope of humanity; that we shall not...

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What's the best way to face death? Kevin Toolis, author of My Father's Wake, discusses the lessons we can learn from Ireland.
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Morning #mist https://t.co/gwo60pXqHw
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19 hours ago
A green glass morning ocean -and the sound of an infinite wave https://t.co/0rsAUI6XeW
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A green glass morning ocean -and the sound of an infinite wave pic.twitter.com/0rsAUI6XeW

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The #falling Sun https://t.co/St3fsDit9i
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The #falling Sun pic.twitter.com/St3fsDit9i

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A golden glass ocean, far out to the west, on the edge of infinity #mayo https://t.co/yfX4MFuSyW
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Has the whole parliamentary process not descended under #Johnston and #brexit into farce? Passing a ‘law’ to enable the breaking of law. An oxymoron of the first order. Why not be done with it? And rule by decree? https://t.co/vcIuwsRPq7
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Nothing changes when it comes to scaling fish; quiet flows the river if time https://t.co/RRgoqwwab6
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#mist https://t.co/3Ht9UJkt98
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#IfICouldSing - a bardic poem. ‘...the waters, salt and fresh, mingling in lovers’ frenzy at ocean’s edge.’ https://t.co/zi0nb4M9bR
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#IfICouldSing - a bardic poem. ‘...the waters, salt and fresh, mingling in lovers’ frenzy at ocean’s edge.’ pic.twitter.com/zi0nb4M9bR

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Dan do you not think that calling it a ‘system’ is a bit of an exaggeration in the first place? https://t.co/ibpwQ8CyKG
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6 days ago
There is a better way to die; honestly, authentically and with less fear. I have even written a book about how to do death better with @OneworldNews https://t.co/VyNmdgbuMf https://t.co/2Spmmdng0V
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A great piece asking again our first and last eternal question - what do we do about death? https://t.co/WwjmN3gbOf
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