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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 Wake
My Father's Wake4 months ago

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My Father's Wake
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 Wake6 months ago
My Father's Wake
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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 Wake10 months 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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Hugely interesting - All that Greg can muster is 7 white folk as part of his canvas team including him. @Conservatives is a tiny tribe that endures only through the apathy and deference of the general public. Plus their media sirens #PaperToryTigers https://t.co/rcV6bvnoEN
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4 hours ago
@IrelandWest #bestseller #airportbooks #Knockairport Though winning near the goal yet do not grieve, She cannot fade though thou has not thy bliss #Keats https://t.co/ILk12El06J
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6 hours ago
Morning Glory https://t.co/dCcLdZGkN3
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— kevintoolis (@KevinToolis) November 18, 2019
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16 hours ago
‘All relative though’ - as #Grant said; ‘Lick’em tomorrow’ https://t.co/9eoOlEo1qS
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kevintoolis @KevinToolis
17 hours ago
The #NHS saved my children’s lives in the last couple of years in a central hospital staffed by professionals from all over the worlds @MattHancock comments are disgraceful even by his own low standards. #Brexit can only provoke a further #NHS staff shortage crisis https://t.co/pHBJE7k5Ct
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kevintoolis @KevinToolis
17 hours ago
@MattHancock Sounds awfully like an internationally staffed Health Service- how will the so-called ‘points system’ and end of FOM not drive the #NHS into #collapse? https://t.co/kJQAEp3rpK
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kevintoolis @KevinToolis
18 hours ago
Alone https://t.co/uQhT1td7i3
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kevintoolis @KevinToolis
19 hours ago
What a shameful cheap rascist thing to say when something like 30- 40% of the #NHS is staffed by migrants or the sons and daughters of migrants - who saved all of my children’s lives. My Irish mother worked as a nurse in the #NHS for 25 years. https://t.co/GfdQ0mxV5Q
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kevintoolis @KevinToolis
19 hours ago
Amazing niight @ArasInisGluaire Mext up with the fabulous @freda_hatton @TuarArd on Nov 30 https://t.co/fvoyM3J3Os
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1 day ago
#incoming #myfatherswake https://t.co/Jq5MirMhCm
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— kevintoolis (@KevinToolis) November 17, 2019
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kevintoolis @KevinToolis
2 days ago
The amazing #MagsGallen and #FredaHatton bringing #keening- the oldest music of womankind- live on stage rehearsing at @ArasInisGluaire⁩ https://t.co/HXy7jzsgcc
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The amazing #MagsGallen and #FredaHatton bringing #keening- the oldest music of womankind- live on stage rehearsing at ⁦@ArasInisGluaire⁩ pic.twitter.com/HXy7jzsgcc

— kevintoolis (@KevinToolis) November 16, 2019
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kevintoolis @KevinToolis
2 days ago
Off to @ArasInisGluaire⁩ for #WondersoftheWake but taking along a few old companions. Still mighty proud of the young man who dared to write it back then when every hand was turned against you as the #Troubles raged #1992 #ManyHaveEyesBurCannotSee https://t.co/LKV954FNCQ https://t.co/ux7Q3XoZsD
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