The Wonder of the Irish Wake

Description

BAFTA-winning writer and film maker, Kevin Toolis recites and reads from his groundbreaking memoir My Father's Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love and Die and reveals how the oldest rite of humanity can still teach us to live, love and die in grace.

Kevin Toolis is a filmmaker and author of My Father's Wake, and an acclaimed chronicle of the Troubles, Rebel Hearts. He has written for the New York Times and The Guardian. He is the founder of Many Rivers Films and playwright of the London West End political satire The Confessions of Gordon Brown.

Booking essential

Location

Ballyroan Library

Date

This event takes place on 12 October 2017, 7:00PM

Age Group

Adults

Series

Red Line Book Festival