Dave Tynan
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Book of the week!
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Hate City, Love Doku
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Paul and Storm
7 days ago
[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!
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My pick for
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is Signs Preceding The End Of The World by
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š²š½ Full blog here
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A special contempt for lads who write extremely long emails into sports podcasts.
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josh (oldfriend99)
12 days ago
It's nearly impossible to make a living entertaining children in a sewer since Stephen king's "It"
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Carl Kinsella
13 days ago
itās like the words after the comma here have been deliberately chosen to make the reader feel insane
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Wrote this back in 2012. Thanks to RTĆ Culture for putting it back up. RIP D.
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The Eleven Year Blip - Dave Tynan remembers the magic of D'Angelo
To celebrate the life and work of R&B and neo-soul legend D'Angelo, who has died aged 51, writer and filmmaker Dave Tynan recalls a memorable live performance by the enigmatic singer
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/1020/1539193-the-eleven-year-blip-dave-tynan-remembers-the-magic-of-dangelo/
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Mark OāBrien
16 days ago
Devoured this. Will read it again. Bravo
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open mike eagle
30 days ago
rest in peace D'Angelo. god what a loss
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about 1 month ago
Have you a big love for the short form? Join us at our Festival Club as we delve into three powerful debut short-story collections from Claire-Lise Kieffer, Shane Tivenan and Dave Tynan šļø
bit.ly/4o3thIr
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rax ālevon honkersā king
about 1 month ago
you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones
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San Francisco! Next Sunday! Reading & signing
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Going to Cork Short Story Festival!
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Shane Tivenan & myself on stage. This day next week, Cork Arts Theatre, 7.30pm.
about 1 month ago
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Patrick Freyne
about 1 month ago
This is horrendous. One of my favourite book shops. Buy some books from them in support.
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weeder
about 1 month ago
Asked to leave Yoga for saying "that's a stretch" six times
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Nice review for We Used To Dance Here in the Examiner today.
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about 2 months ago
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The Walrus
about 2 months ago
Toni Morrisonās The Bluest Eye sold just 2,000 copies in its first year. Today, itās a number many authors canāt recover from. Writer @tajjaisen.bsky.social examines how the publishing industryās sales track can make or break careers before they even begin:
thewalrus.ca/the-publishing-i...
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Traitors makes me think we should have had Takeshi's Castle around 2008 āļø
about 2 months ago
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onion person
about 2 months ago
the fact that so many people frame autism as āa problem that needs to be solvedā is a constant reminder that being ānot normalā isnāt acceptable to a large amount of the world. itās the same reason thereās a trans panic right now too. they think people are defective
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Alan Siegel
about 2 months ago
Robert Redford's supernatural charisma perfectly summed up in this anecdote from Sam Kashner's Vanity Fair story about Mike Nichols casting The Graduate.
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Bethany Black
4 months ago
I think about this all the time
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We Used to Dance Here is only number one in Hodges Figgis! Signed copies there too.
2 months ago
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Book of the week!
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Jason Arthur
2 months ago
'A sharp eye for character & a nose for linguistic mischief mark
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ās prose out from the packā¦The real pleasures of this collection are the authorās attention to the tiny twists that send our lives spinningā We Used to Dance Here
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In the recoil
Only a few decades ago, Irish fiction was defined by the short story. Tourist calendars and tea towels might trumpet the craggy Mount Rushmore of Joyce,
https://www.the-tls.com/literature/fiction/we-used-to-dance-here-dave-tynan-book-review-michael-hughes
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The Ditch
2 months ago
šØBreakingšØ Israeli war bonds wonāt 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.
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Out now!
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3 months ago
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Rick O'Shea
4 months ago
Another week, another new and extraordinary Irish short story collection.
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'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'... š§µ
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Jason Arthur
3 months ago
āSharp, funny & vivid, these stories are brilliantly attuned to the messiness of life.ā
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āGritty & soulful, spiky & incisive...A memorable debut collection.ā
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's We Used to Dance Here published today.
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Out tomorrow!
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3 months ago
'Youāre always trying to write what you donāt feel is out in the world already. Dave Tynan's We Used to Dance Here will be out in the world this Thursday!
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I got into the paper, the book out this week with
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Dave Tynan: āI was approaching it like it might be the only book I ever writeā
Writer-director Dave Tynan on failure, film and his new work We Used to Dance Here
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2025/08/25/dave-tynan-i-was-approaching-it-like-it-might-be-the-only-book-i-ever-write/
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David Hering
3 months ago
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]
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john freiler
3 months ago
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
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Could not be prouder to be with Jason &
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Would you look at that line up. š¤
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Conor McCabe
3 months ago
Three apartments in Smithfield going for ā¬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.
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Jason Arthur
3 months ago
āPounds with dark energy, the prose as hypnotic as the dance music that pulses from clubsā Daily Mail We Used to Dance Here by
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is published next week!
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Richard Chambers
3 months ago
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".
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Mark Chadbourn
3 months ago
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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If Peter Weir and Russell Crowe did Master And Commander 2, that's a billion box office
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RIP SeƔn Rocks. A proper - rare -champion of the arts.
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Helen Czerski
4 months ago
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."
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Nice list
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10 of the best independent bookshops in Ireland
With the rise of virtual stores, mobile-friendly subscriptions and Kindles, these stalwarts maintain that the proof is in the pages.
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/0726/1524690-10-of-the-best-independent-bookshops-in-ireland/
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You might as well buy it. Out next month.
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stabke
4 months ago
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 itās extra. Be extra.
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Mary Gillis
4 months ago
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.
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"Katie... and Amanda Serrano, they changed the game" These things are not the same.
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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.
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Watch Dublin Elegy Down The Market by Dave Tynan | The Quietus
Writer film director Dave Tynan on the elegy he wrote for Smithfield Market, Northside, Dublin, Down The Market
https://thequietus.com/culture/film/dave-tynan-interview/
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The Quietus
4 months ago
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
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Dean Van Nguyen
5 months ago
Seeing an old edition of Brendan Behanās Borstal Boy today immediately brought to mind the DVD company that rebranded the movie adaptation as a āDanny Dyer in the nickā flick
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