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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 Wake12 months 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 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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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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kevintoolis @KevinToolis
11 hours ago
Surely some mistake? Stephen King? @Irelandwest
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3 days ago
If I Could Sing, a bardic poem in praise of Irish Wakes and my mothers' island

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5 days ago
#evening #glories #achill https://t.co/u6udCmMoSS
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#evening #glories #achill pic.twitter.com/u6udCmMoSS

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6 days ago
The morning catch https://t.co/k1TLDUtR5U
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6 days ago
Sorry I meant 11pm. Hope you can all tune in https://t.co/5MxxS0i2E1
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6 days ago
If anyone is up for some bardic poetry, talk of #Irishwakes, #Homer and the fall of #Troy, sex and death and #wakegames tune in tonight at 12PM @radiomidwest LATE SHOW where I’ll by chatting with #JoeByrne. There might even be a song https://t.co/V39DG4Se4l #mayo @AllThingsMayo https://t.co/uqkhwCuRCu
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2 weeks ago
Lenticular clouds - appearing to be stationery in the sky #achill #mayo #erin #myfatherswake @AllThingsMayo⁩ @wildatlanticIRL⁩ @MayoArtsOffice⁩ @MayoDotIE⁩ https://t.co/s642iJL0Z7
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Lenticular clouds - appearing to be stationery in the sky #achill #mayo #erin #myfatherswake ⁦@AllThingsMayo⁩ ⁦@wildatlanticIRL⁩ ⁦@MayoArtsOffice⁩ ⁦@MayoDotIE⁩ pic.twitter.com/s642iJL0Z7

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2 weeks ago
Old bones #ancient bog dale- old tree roots dating to around 4000 BC- exposed on the bog in #achill. Older than the pyramids, lying silvered by the sun, adrift in bog, wind, and time #NineRulestoConquerDeath https://t.co/HI6YYy65W1
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2 weeks ago
#HomefromtheSea

‘Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers.’ #TheWasteland #Eliot https://t.co/xwYj4eLKGc
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2 weeks ago
Pink tonight out in the #west #achill #mayo. This pic has not been colour enhanced. #myfatherswake https://t.co/WhhFoE9j21
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2 weeks ago
All the lives gone - though that is a lot of hair lacquer there for the honeycomb bun. https://t.co/DBKJFK0vCB
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2 weeks ago
#StJohnsEve #dookinella #achill #mayo #erin #fire #fertility #ocean https://t.co/ZZ1EGZFxaR
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#StJohnsEve #dookinella #achill #mayo #erin #fire #fertility #ocean pic.twitter.com/ZZ1EGZFxaR

— kevintoolis (@KevinToolis) June 23, 2020
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