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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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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 Wake9 months ago
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Bringing back the oldest music of humanity in the Wonders of the Wake; keening, poetry and song. Get in touch if you want to hear more. Rehearsing with the amazing @HenryGirls and @PaulineScanlon for a gig in Duncairn Arts in

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My Father's Wake1 year 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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Bringing death talk to a crematorium. Wow. A death date for the diary https://t.co/6k4U4v67gm
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Now that is depressing - you are going to spend a lot more time in life commuting than ever having sex https://t.co/MS16sqvuO3
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#NineRulestoConquerDeath The ‘pleasures of sorrow’ - the value of giving in to grief - are often cited in #TheIliad but are unrecognisable to us in our #WesternDeathMachine. More rules to talk about at @TEDMED in #Boston https://t.co/OiVQxlwawo
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Surely like tobacco adverts all gambling ads should be banned from terrestrial TV. Is it not just that simple? And clamps on online adverts too targeted at UK consumers? https://t.co/vNDIoqORHJ
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#temptation the #Fall #chagall #nice https://t.co/rz1LrDFHbC
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Symmetry https://t.co/sH6W3x3vYJ
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Another dawn https://t.co/S7AZPXBj9M
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A forest of cacti https://t.co/FCUwzohU6c
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This new day dawning https://t.co/wdtADwCcvB
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He was also the harbinger of various ‘End Times’ prophecies using his work to determine Rapture and destruction https://t.co/ebnUvbJY9q
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Sure he was only out by a few digits in the end https://t.co/4xVKboFpDP
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