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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 Wake9 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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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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‘A powerful and immensely moving narrative’

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kevintoolis @KevinToolis
3 days ago
Destiny https://t.co/lQaJjpEl5W
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3 days ago
A really great piece of journalism. Do read. We must not return to that bad old world that swallowed its children so quick #EdwinMuir https://t.co/9FLUVpdv3n
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3 days ago
Humanity had a lot to be said for it. https://t.co/YJyrZk30jQ
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4 days ago
Reading books - a pleasure once caught - cannot be rescinded https://t.co/cZLonnV8yR
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kevintoolis @KevinToolis
4 days ago
Even in the deluge can we believe the world ahead and beyond will be better than the selfish one so easily broken by a tiny piece of genetic code? I hope we make it so. Here is some mastery from a dead poet #EdwinMuir worth reading https://t.co/eV0m3NLZWV
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kevintoolis @KevinToolis
5 days ago
A rite that outlasted the fall of #Troy and is as much a part of #Irish identity as song, porter and shamrocks shall never wither but only reinvent itself in another form @irishhospice @wildatlanticway @TEDMED https://t.co/tgOOwKsnTA
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5 days ago
A rite that outlasted the fall of #Troy and is as much a part of #Irish identity as song, porter and shamrocks shall never wither but only reinvent itself in another form @irishhospice @wildatlanticway @TEDMED https://t.co/tgOOwKJZia
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5 days ago
Well you know what they say about clouds? https://t.co/VyFcsFjnmV
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5 days ago
#TheHorses #EdwinMuir 1
Barely a twelvemonth after
The seven days war that put the world to sleep,
Late in the evening the strange horses came.
By then we had made our covenant with silence,
But in the first few days it was so still
We listened to our breathing and were afraid.
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