Dave Tynan

If Peter Weir and Russell Crowe did Master And Commander 2, that's a billion box office

RIP Seán Rocks. A proper - rare -champion of the arts.

"The remains of the swamp grass, the ferns, the horsetails rotted under the layers of sand and clay and the clay, became black, and turned into coal. And to this cemetery we intend to go, drag the dead out of their tombs, and force them to work for us." That language frames it as a zombie movie, a horror story, the dead come back to haunt us, in this case with their carbon.

Reading Rebecca Solnit & I love this:

""The remains of the swamp grass, the ferns ... turned into coal. And to this cemetery we intend to go, drag the dead out of their tombs, and force them to work for us." That language frames it as a zombie movie, a horror story, the dead come back to haunt us."

10 of the best independent bookshops in Ireland With the rise of virtual stores, mobile-friendly subscriptions and Kindles, these stalwarts maintain that the proof is in the pages.

Nice list
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Absolutely shameless!

Thanks, that's lovely to hear.

You might as well buy it. Out next month.

Listen. Life is short. Take the vacation. Eat the dessert. Dress like an elderly British woman to defy custody laws and see your kids. Get the guacamole yes I know it’s extra. Be extra.

Instead of all the assassin shenanigans, the JOHN WICK sequels should have been about him avenging the deaths of larger and larger pets. A platypus. A monkey. A pony. A bear. An elephant. A whale.

I feel like they used to be bigger? Or maybe I struggle more and more with Sky's portrayal of the Lions as OUR QUEST FOR HEROES

I'd like to see more made of the Barbarians, always seemed more craic.

"Katie... and Amanda Serrano, they changed the game"

These things are not the same.

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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Being on the quietus, so proud of that.

Amongst other things you can watch Barry Gleeson sing a song one of his students wrote.

“She was a girl, he was a boy”

Down the Market by Dave Tynan film poster

Darran Anderson speaks to the writer and filmmaker about the closure of Smithfield Market on the Northside and the sung and spoken eulogy he made to celebrate its passing

Watch Dublin Elegy Down The Market by #DaveTynan

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Exceptional

Seeing an old edition of Brendan Behan’s Borstal Boy today immediately brought to mind the DVD company that rebranded the movie adaptation as a “Danny Dyer in the nick” flick

Stephen Cluxton is Dubs Highlander.

Incredible movie!

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I hope so but I'm not too confident

Such a rich text

somehow much worse as two words, meat space balls

Haven't read yet but is it not true that men reading fiction is in decline? I hate that, of course.

refreshing to find out that some bombs are too unseemly to drop

28 years later: good gear.

rip james baldwin you wouldn't have been surprised but you'd still hate this shit

Israeli forces kill more than 50 and wound over 200 in latest massacre at aid site in Gaza Yesterday, Israeli forces opened fire and killed 34 people waiting at a number of different aid sites in Gaza.

Israeli forces have killed at least 51 people and wounded more than 200 in the latest massacre of Palestinians waiting for desperately needed humanitarian aid in Gaza, according to the territory's health ministry.
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Delicious!

IT LIVES!!