Saturday 31th August 2024
Location: Kells Priory Kells Kells
Kevin Toolis is a BAFTA winning filmmaker, director, bardic poet and writer. In his book, My Father’s Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love and Die, he poetically explores the death of his father, Sonny, within the ancestral embrace of the Irish wake.

His acclaimed nonfiction chronicle of Ireland’s Troubles Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within the IRA’s Soul, is widely regarded as one of the best works written on the Irish Republican Army. His newest death book Nine Rules to Conquer Death was published in October 2020.

He is the founder of Many Rivers Films and a member of an Irish traditional arts band, Wonders of the Wake, that in song, music, keening and bardic poetry celebrates the sorrow, laughter and joy of an Irish wake.
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