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Kevin can be contacted on kevin@myfatherswake.com

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https://www.johnhewittsociety.org/events/2019/7/24/the-wonders-of-the-wake-with-kevin-toolis

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 Wake5 months ago

Kevin

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 Wake9 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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2 hours ago
#Sept1586 #ChidTichborne
I sought my death, and found it in my womb,
I looked for life, and saw it was a shade,
I trod the earth, and knew it was my tomb,
And now I die, and now I was but made;
The glass is full, and now the glass is run,
And now I live, and now my life is done. https://t.co/vz01nTHMTi

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2 hours ago
Because two prizes are always better than one? https://t.co/DOEz1GBU0S

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2 days ago
Ye if only #Stalin knew about this! https://t.co/TXhjpbx74A

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5 days ago
If you fancy coming to the best ever #IrishWake to hear a bit of ancient keening, bardic poetry, laughter, song and craic and are passing through life and London on Sept 27th then do get yourself a ticket for the show https://t.co/zEuT5c0dmV

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5 days ago
Happy 2nd Birthday #MyFathersWake. A book that got rejected 40 times and took 20 years to get published and has since been reviewed in @BestNYTBooks @GuardianBooks @KirkusReviews But the most thoughtful review ever was @lucyctalbot in @OrderGoodDeath
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5 days ago
I am choosing the white ones to defy convention https://t.co/iLCoF8mmjF

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6 days ago
What about being part of a band too? https://t.co/miX5rbm4Pd

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6 days ago
#WondersoftheWake Best Wake ever! @LDNIrishCentre Sept 27th with fab @niamhparsons + @TheHenryGirls TKTS : https://t.co/5do3dBOXyr https://t.co/GYPEoHuNPK

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6 days ago
Going out in style in central London! https://t.co/jruufqkFyW

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6 days ago
Turns out to be not a great idea in the end https://t.co/vZTCV9HDH4

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1 week ago
Dear London friends do join us on Sept 27th with the fabulous @niamhparsons and the amazing @TheHenryGirls for the best #IrishWake you'll ever get to be at this side of #Heaven. Do spread the word. https://t.co/ZyPVTl6X7w

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1 week ago
You’d think it was one rule for the rich and another for the general riff-raft wouldn’t you, unless you knew better? https://t.co/E1dPuoZPrK

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