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Dave Tynan
@davetynan.bsky.social
Writer & Director
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Hate City, Love Doku
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!
November 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
My pick for @dublinbookfest.bsky.social is Signs Preceding The End Of The World by @yuriherrera.bsky.social 🇲🇽

Full blog here
dublinbookfestival.com/halloween-re...
November 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM
A special contempt for lads who write extremely long emails into sports podcasts.
November 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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It's nearly impossible to make a living entertaining children in a sewer since Stephen king's "It"
October 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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it’s like the words after the comma here have been deliberately chosen to make the reader feel insane
October 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Wrote this back in 2012. Thanks to RTÉ Culture for putting it back up.

RIP D.

www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
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
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October 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Devoured this.
Will read it again.
Bravo @davetynan.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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rest in peace D'Angelo. god what a loss
October 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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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
October 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones
October 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
San Francisco! Next Sunday!
Reading & signing @litquake.org
October 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Going to Cork Short Story Festival!
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

Shane Tivenan & myself on stage.
This day next week, Cork Arts Theatre, 7.30pm.
October 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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This is horrendous. One of my favourite book shops. Buy some books from them in support.
October 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Asked to leave Yoga for saying "that's a stretch" six times
October 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Nice review for We Used To Dance Here in the Examiner today.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
September 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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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...
September 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Traitors makes me think we should have had Takeshi's Castle around 2008 ☘️
September 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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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
September 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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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...
September 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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I think about this all the time
July 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
We Used to Dance Here is only number one in Hodges Figgis!
Signed copies there too.
September 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
September 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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'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,
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September 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM