We Used to Dance Here: Dave Tynan’s Dublin

Sponsored by the Government of Ireland’s Emigrant Support Programme and Culture Ireland

A part of Words Around the World

After a decade of ground-breaking film work, filmmaker and writer Dave Tynan brings us the “...gritty and soulful, spiky and incisive” (Colin Barrett) story collection We Used to Dance Here, a portrait of both Dublin and Dubliners in flux, exploring life on the margins, toxic masculinity, and frustrated ambitions. With dog tracks, late-night radio talk shows, pubs, messy break-ups, industrial accidents, and the reality of housing precarity, these stories show a darker, edgier side to Dublin and they do so in brilliant, crackling prose. Interviewed by Jon Hickey. FREE, $10-15 suggested donation

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