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Hate City, Love Doku
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Hate City, Love Doku
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[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!
November 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!
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...
Full blog here
dublinbookfestival.com/halloween-re...
November 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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...
Full blog here
dublinbookfestival.com/halloween-re...
A special contempt for lads who write extremely long emails into sports podcasts.
November 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
A special contempt for lads who write extremely long emails into sports podcasts.
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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
It's nearly impossible to make a living entertaining children in a sewer since Stephen king's "It"
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it’s like the words after the comma here have been deliberately chosen to make the reader feel insane
Israel launches more strikes on Gaza overnight, testing fragile truce
Israel launches more strikes on Gaza overnight, testing fragile truce
One Palestinian killed by Israeli shelling, another shot dead by Israeli military
www.irishtimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
it’s like the words after the comma here have been deliberately chosen to make the reader feel insane
Wrote this back in 2012. Thanks to RTÉ Culture for putting it back up.
RIP D.
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
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
www.rte.ie
October 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Wrote this back in 2012. Thanks to RTÉ Culture for putting it back up.
RIP D.
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
RIP D.
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
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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
rest in peace D'Angelo. god what a loss
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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
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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you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones
October 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones
San Francisco! Next Sunday!
Reading & signing @litquake.org
Reading & signing @litquake.org
October 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
San Francisco! Next Sunday!
Reading & signing @litquake.org
Reading & signing @litquake.org
Going to Cork Short Story Festival!
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
Shane Tivenan & myself on stage.
This day next week, Cork Arts Theatre, 7.30pm.
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
Shane Tivenan & myself on stage.
This day next week, Cork Arts Theatre, 7.30pm.
October 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Going to Cork Short Story Festival!
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
Shane Tivenan & myself on stage.
This day next week, Cork Arts Theatre, 7.30pm.
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
Shane Tivenan & myself on stage.
This day next week, Cork Arts Theatre, 7.30pm.
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This is horrendous. One of my favourite book shops. Buy some books from them in support.
‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack
‘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
October 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This is horrendous. One of my favourite book shops. Buy some books from them in support.
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Asked to leave Yoga for saying "that's a stretch" six times
October 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Asked to leave Yoga for saying "that's a stretch" six times
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
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...
Traitors makes me think we should have had Takeshi's Castle around 2008 ☘️
September 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Traitors makes me think we should have had Takeshi's Castle around 2008 ☘️
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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
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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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
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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I think about this all the time
July 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I think about this all the time
We Used to Dance Here is only number one in Hodges Figgis!
Signed copies there too.
Signed copies there too.
September 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
We Used to Dance Here is only number one in Hodges Figgis!
Signed copies there too.
Signed copies there too.
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...
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
September 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
'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...
We Used to Dance Here
www.the-tls.com/literature/f...