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open mike eagle @mike-eagle.bsky.social · 13h

rest in peace D'Angelo. god what a loss

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dublinbookfest.bsky.social @dublinbookfest.bsky.social · 7d

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 🎟️ bit.ly/4o3thIr

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Dave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social · 2d

Time is cruel and is Kempifying me... now I've found this
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Personalised Video Messages - Official Ross Kemp

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Dave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social · 2d

San Francisco! Next Sunday!
Reading & signing @litquake.org

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Dave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social · 5d

Going to Cork Short Story Festival!
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

Shane Tivenan & myself on stage.
This day next week, Cork Arts Theatre, 7.30pm.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 8d

This is horrendous. One of my favourite book shops. Buy some books from them in support.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 8d

‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack

Books Upstairs manager hopes to partially open the D’Olier Street store later on Monday

www.irishtimes.com

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 10d

Asked to leave Yoga for saying "that's a stretch" six times

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Dave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social · 12d

Left it nailed up there for all to see

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Dave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social · 12d

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 15d

“I have seen movies, short films, completely created by artificial intelligence,” Herzog said. “Story and acting and everything, they look completely dead. There are stories, but they have no soul. They are empty and soulless.”

Get their ass, Werner.

Werner Herzog gazed upon the "empty and soulless" abyss of AI-generated movies

www.avclub.com

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Dave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social · 16d

CityUser, Activate

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Dave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social · 17d

Nice review for We Used To Dance Here in the Examiner today.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 18d

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye sold just 2,000 copies in its first year. Today, it’s a number many authors can’t recover from. Writer @tajjaisen.bsky.social examines how the publishing industry’s sales track can make or break careers before they even begin: thewalrus.ca/the-publishing-i...

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Dave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social · 21d

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

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onion person @junlper.beer · 21d

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

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Dave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social · 21d

"Dublin Town CEO" I'm reading

Dave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social · 26d

Mark, very much a music film, Barry Gleeson and more, you might like thequietus.com/culture/film...

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

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Alan Siegel @alansiegella.bsky.social · 28d

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...

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · Jul 27

I think about this all the time

viscous nuisance
@slimefiend
thinking abt the time i went to a planetarium and somebody booed when they showed earth

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Dave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social · Sep 13

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

We Used To Dance Here is number one in Hodges Figgis

Dave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social · Sep 8

Book of the week!

www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

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Jason Arthur @jasonarthur.bsky.social · Sep 5

'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...

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,

www.the-tls.com

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚨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.

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Dave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social · Aug 29

Out now!

Rick O'Shea @rickoshea.bsky.social · Jul 22

... to the slap across the head of 'Dog Men' and the family saga of 'And the Ballroom' there isn't a dud story here.

Deserves all the plaudits I hope it will get.

Out at the end of August, published by @grantabooks.bsky.social.

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