Traitors makes me think we should have had Takeshi's Castle around 2008 ☘️

the fact that so many people frame autism as “a problem that needs to be solved” is a constant reminder that being “not normal” isn’t acceptable to a large amount of the world. it’s the same reason there’s a trans panic right now too. they think people are defective

Robert Redford's supernatural charisma perfectly summed up in this anecdote from Sam Kashner's Vanity Fair story about Mike Nichols casting The Graduate. www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/03...

I think about this all the time

We Used to Dance Here is only number one in Hodges Figgis! Signed copies there too.

Book of the week! www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

'A sharp eye for character & a nose for linguistic mischief mark @davetynan.bsky.social’s prose out from the pack…The real pleasures of this collection are the author’s attention to the tiny twists that send our lives spinning’ We Used to Dance Here www.the-tls.com/literature/f...

🚨Breaking🚨 Israeli war bonds won’t be sold in Ireland from tomorrow. Israel today moved its bond prospectus approval process to Luxembourg. It has also not included Ireland as one of the member states where it will sell its war bonds.

Out now!

Another week, another new and extraordinary Irish short story collection. @davetynan.bsky.social's 'We Used to Dance Here' is gorgeous. From the opening smoking area pick up of 'Tourist', and the sharp revenge of 'Off Your Chest' through the great non Meet Cute of 'How Do You Know Them'... 🧵

‘Sharp, funny & vivid, these stories are brilliantly attuned to the messiness of life.’ @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social ‘Gritty & soulful, spiky & incisive...A memorable debut collection.’ @colinbarrett.bsky.social @davetynan.bsky.social's We Used to Dance Here published today.

Out tomorrow!

'You’re always trying to write what you don’t feel is out in the world already. Dave Tynan's We Used to Dance Here will be out in the world this Thursday!

I got into the paper, the book out this week with @grantabooks.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...

60s Scott Walker: Baby take it easy now/I miss your sweet caress and how! 70s Scott Walker: The boulevards are rushing by, mon frere/With ennui and some despair 00s Scott Walker: Locust/Locust/Disease [sound of Mickey Mouse being tortured in a Bolivian jail]

no opinion on woke cracker barrel, but like 25 years ago i was eating there with my grandpa and he ordered a fried shrimp platter. at one point i looked at his plate and it was empty, and i asked if he was eating the tails. "what the hell do you care," he said

Could not be prouder to be with Jason & @grantabooks.bsky.social Would you look at that line up. 🖤

Three apartments in Smithfield going for €1.2 million. No news in that these days, but in the ad they make a point of highlighting that the units are vacant and have been for three years, and as such no rent caps will apply.

‘Pounds with dark energy, the prose as hypnotic as the dance music that pulses from clubs’ Daily Mail We Used to Dance Here by @davetynan.bsky.social is published next week!

Interviewed Gareth Sheridan this morning - he says it's time for an end to 'left - right divisive' politics. That's despite being introduced to councillors by Senator Sharon Keogan - who said LGBT+ people were involved in an 'organised takeover' of society... and who has posted "#IrelandisFull".

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

If Peter Weir and Russell Crowe did Master And Commander 2, that's a billion box office

RIP Seán Rocks. A proper - rare -champion of the arts.

Reading Rebecca Solnit & I love this: ""The remains of the swamp grass, the ferns ... turned into coal. And to this cemetery we intend to go, drag the dead out of their tombs, and force them to work for us." That language frames it as a zombie movie, a horror story, the dead come back to haunt us."

Nice list www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

You might as well buy it. Out next month.

Listen. Life is short. Take the vacation. Eat the dessert. Dress like an elderly British woman to defy custody laws and see your kids. Get the guacamole yes I know it’s extra. Be extra.

Instead of all the assassin shenanigans, the JOHN WICK sequels should have been about him avenging the deaths of larger and larger pets. A platypus. A monkey. A pony. A bear. An elephant. A whale.

"Katie... and Amanda Serrano, they changed the game" These things are not the same.

thequietus.com/culture/film... Being on the quietus, so proud of that. Amongst other things you can watch Barry Gleeson sing a song one of his students wrote.

Darran Anderson speaks to the writer and filmmaker about the closure of Smithfield Market on the Northside and the sung and spoken eulogy he made to celebrate its passing Watch Dublin Elegy Down The Market by #DaveTynan buff.ly/w5R14VB @davetynan.bsky.social

Seeing an old edition of Brendan Behan’s Borstal Boy today immediately brought to mind the DVD company that rebranded the movie adaptation as a “Danny Dyer in the nick” flick

Stephen Cluxton is Dubs Highlander.

refreshing to find out that some bombs are too unseemly to drop

28 years later: good gear.

rip james baldwin you wouldn't have been surprised but you'd still hate this shit

Israeli forces have killed at least 51 people and wounded more than 200 in the latest massacre of Palestinians waiting for desperately needed humanitarian aid in Gaza, according to the territory's health ministry. http://jrnl.ie/6735144

IT LIVES!!

Louis Theroux's The Settlers is a scary necessary watch. Impressive how Theroux has pushed himself of late.

I have a new hero. This owl stole a child's hobby horse and flies around with it!

Fair to say, our covers have never looked better. So grateful to the stable of designers we work with!

I think Greta Thunberg is the best example of how there is no way of protesting that will satisfy the scolds. It'll either be called too aggressive or a self-serving publicity stunt.

The idea that people's positive qualities - kindness, creativity, knowing stuff - have nothing to do with effort is such corrosive life-hack influenced, cheat-code addicted bullshit.

what it feels like to google something

2 excellent Irish debut story collections coming soon. EVERY ONE STILL HERE by Liadan Ní Chuinn –'Deserves to be considered among the best Irish books of the 21stC’ IRISH TIMES WE USED TO DANCE HERE by Dave Tynan –‘Sharp, funny & vivid...Brilliantly attuned to the messiness of life’ WENDY ERSKINE

Time to choose: shit or chocolate

Great to see this excellent response to @davetynan.bsky.social's debut story collection: 'The stories in WE USED TO DANCE HERE are gritty & soulful, spiky & incisive. They are big hearted but take no prisoners. A memorable debut collection that will stay with you' COLIN BARRETT

In seriously good company here. August!

Interviewing / featuring Kanye West in 2025 is irresponsible to the point of malpractice.

Georgian Best