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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 2d

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

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 2d

‘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 · 4d

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

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Dave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social · 6d

Left it nailed up there for all to see

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Dave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social · 6d

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 9d

“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 · 10d

CityUser, Activate

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Dave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social · 11d

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 · 12d

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 · 15d

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

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onion person @junlper.beer · 15d

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 · 15d

"Dublin Town CEO" I'm reading

Dave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social · 20d

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

thequietus.com

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Alan Siegel @alansiegella.bsky.social · 22d

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 · 25d

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

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'...

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Dave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social · Aug 28

Out now

Buy early, buy often 👍

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Jason Arthur @jasonarthur.bsky.social · Aug 28

‘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.

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Dave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social · Aug 27

Out tomorrow!

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Dave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social · Aug 26

cat on a keyboard in hodges figgis

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Jason Arthur @jasonarthur.bsky.social · Aug 25

'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!

Dave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social · Aug 25

I got into the paper, the book out this week with @grantabooks.bsky.social

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...

Dave Tynan: ‘I was approaching it like it might be the only book I ever write’

Writer-director Dave Tynan on failure, film and his new work We Used to Dance Here

www.irishtimes.com

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