The Irish Mail on Sunday

My Father’s Wake

Kevin Toolis Weidenfeld and Nicholson €18.99

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Subtitled How The Irish Teach Us To Live, Love And Die, this book concentrat­es on the latter, or rather the traditiona­l Irish wake which, if never grown truly extinct, is now enjoying something of a comeback. Toolis’s eyewitness account of the death and wake of his father is an uplifting lesson in how the celebratio­n of a wake can bring spiritual consolatio­n and an acceptance of death that can elude us otherwise.

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