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Kevin Toolis

Kevin Toolis
Kevin Toolis is a writer and BAFTA-winning filmmaker. The author of a celebrated chronicle of Ireland’s Troubles, Rebel Hearts: Journeys within the IRA’s Soul, he has written for the New York Times Magazine and The Guardian and reported on conflicts around the world. His family has lived in the same village on an island off the coast of County Mayo for the last two hundred years. Toolis makes his home on the island and in London.


How the Irish Teach Us to Die

Kevin Toolis in Praise of a Good Wake
February 27, 2018  By Kevin Toolis
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