My Father's Wake

My Father's Wake How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love and Die

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Publisher's Synopsis

Death is a whisper in the Anglo-Saxon world. But on a remote island, off the coast of County Mayo, it has a louder voice. The local radio station runs a thrice-daily roll-call of the recently departed. The islanders keep vigil with the corpse and share in the sorrow of the bereaved. The living and the dead are bound together in the oldest rite of humanity. In My Father's Wake, Kevin Toolis gives an intimate, eye-witness account of the death and wake of his father, celebrating the spiritual depth of the Irish Wake and asking if we too can find a better way to deal with our mortality, by living and loving in the acceptance of death.

Book information

ISBN: 9781474605243
Publisher: Orion
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub date:
DEWEY: 393.09415
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 275
Weight: 254g
Height: 174mm
Width: 173mm
Spine width: 22mm