Frank Wynne
@terribleman.com
Irish literary translator, editor, writer, advisory editor to the Stinging Fly, and The Paris Review, 2022 International Booker Chair. he/him/oi, you! 🌈
Share a 90s movie you believe needs more love…
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Share a 90s movie you believe needs more love…
In one of her first public actions as the newly elected Uachtarán na hÉireann (president of Ireland) Catherine Connolly has written a public letter of solidarity on Trans Remembrance Day. It is a very promising start.
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
In one of her first public actions as the newly elected Uachtarán na hÉireann (president of Ireland) Catherine Connolly has written a public letter of solidarity on Trans Remembrance Day. It is a very promising start.
Spending this evening rewatching this, probably for the first time since it was broadcast in 1977 – since which time it has haunted me
October 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Spending this evening rewatching this, probably for the first time since it was broadcast in 1977 – since which time it has haunted me
A fond good night to Terrence Stamp
August 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A fond good night to Terrence Stamp
The repair patches are fibreglass and you cut them down to size, they then go over the hole and you can skim plaster over the top with pollyfilla. But they would never be strong enough for you to put a screw in it to hold a shelf.
April 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The repair patches are fibreglass and you cut them down to size, they then go over the hole and you can skim plaster over the top with pollyfilla. But they would never be strong enough for you to put a screw in it to hold a shelf.
John & Yoko waiting for the maid to make the bed so they can continue protesting against the system.
April 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
John & Yoko waiting for the maid to make the bed so they can continue protesting against the system.
You seem to have forgotten that, per the brilliance of Russell Brand, Penelope Keith kills JFK
April 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
You seem to have forgotten that, per the brilliance of Russell Brand, Penelope Keith kills JFK
She was, as she freely admitted, a difficult actress – and did a lot of schlock in the 70s. This isn’t remotely the worst - try “Escape from Witch Mountain/Watcher in the Woods/Wicked Stepmother. Thankfully, she got to end her career with Lindsay Anderson’s magisterial “The Whales of August”
April 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
She was, as she freely admitted, a difficult actress – and did a lot of schlock in the 70s. This isn’t remotely the worst - try “Escape from Witch Mountain/Watcher in the Woods/Wicked Stepmother. Thankfully, she got to end her career with Lindsay Anderson’s magisterial “The Whales of August”
Right now on the Galápagos Islands, I am surrounded by them – they are fun, playful, stupid, brilliant, glorious
February 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Right now on the Galápagos Islands, I am surrounded by them – they are fun, playful, stupid, brilliant, glorious
So far, this month has been dominated by the magnificent Saskia Vogel. Both are brilliant, but “the singularity“ is exceptional
February 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
So far, this month has been dominated by the magnificent Saskia Vogel. Both are brilliant, but “the singularity“ is exceptional
Queer and LGBTQIA books I’m looking forward to this year (only one of which I translated 😏)
February 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Queer and LGBTQIA books I’m looking forward to this year (only one of which I translated 😏)