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Fatality is a whisper in the Anglo-Saxon world. But on the remote island off the seacoast of Co. Mayo, it has a louder words. Along with information of incoming Atlantic storms, the neighborhood radio station runs a thrice daily move call of regular fatalities. The islanders go in great volumes, often with young children, to wake with their dead. They keep carefully the corpse and the bereaved company through the extended hours of the night. They dig the grave with their own hands. It really is a communal triumph in overcoming the death of the individual. In this attractively written memoir, Kevin Toolis offers a romantic eyewitness accounts of the death and wake of his dad and explores the wider history of the Irish wake. With an uplifting, positive concept at its center, My Father's Wake celebrates the religious depth of the Irish wake and asks if we can find an improved way to cope with our mortality by living and adoring in the acceptance of death. Written and read by Kevin Toolis.
