Rick O'Shea

Rick O'Shea has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in October 2020. The social media accounts linked to from Rick O'Shea are: • Facebook • Instagram • Email Besides social media accounts, rickoshea has populated their site with: • Literary Curator - UCD Festival • Writehawks 2 - Books Upstairs – January 2025 • Writehawks 3 - Books Upstairs – March 2025 • Listen back to Arena on RTÉ Radio 1 • Rick O’Shea’s best books of 2025: Great reads you might have missed this year | Irish Independent • Rick O’Shea: Why 2026 is going to be a special year for fiction fans | Irish Independent • Ireland Reads 2026 • Really getting lost in a good book is one way to find better mental health – The Irish Times • Books At One Community Prize Fund 2026 • Hosting Student Enterprise Awards 2026 • Arena host Rick O’Shea: ‘I’m going to say it out loud. I have no self-esteem of any kind’ – The Irish Times • Rick's *only* website • The Irish at the Venice Biennale | Arena - RTÉ Radio 1 • The Rick O'Shea Book Club • Tickets for Writehawks 5 at Books Upstairs • The Rick O'Shea Book Club Xmas Appeal 2025 • Rick O’Shea: As I bid farewell to my book column, I end with a Groundhog Day of sorts • National Patron Of Epilepsy Ireland • Remembering Sean Rocks | Arena - RTÉ Radio 1 • Board of Fighting Words NI • Books At One Community Fund Recipients - Books Ireland • Writehawks 4 - Books Upstairs - June 2025 • Rick O’Shea: Vanished tribal customs, a serial killer sister and other books that vividly evoke Nigeria • Rick O’Shea: Addiction and the apocalypse never sounded so appealing • Writehawks 5 - Books Upstairs - February 2026 • Rick O’Shea: You'd like to think school libraries had improved since my days at Drimnagh Castle but they haven’t much • Celebrity Mastermind 2012 • Dalkey Book Festival - Writing From the Edge with Elif Shafak, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Donal Ryan and Nelofer Pazira-Fisk • Dalkey Book Festival - Joseph O'Neill: An Exile Returns • Rick O'Shea appointed new presenter of Arena • Dalkey Book Festival - Finding Mangan with Bridget Hourican • ‘Those first few weeks were very hard for Seán’s team’ – Rick O’Shea on taking over the reins on RTÉ’s ‘Arena’ • Dalkey Book Festival - Politics of Empathy with Frida Isberg • Dublin, One City, Many Stories, Episode 5 • Rick O’Shea - Me & My Money • The Thursday Interview: Rick O’Shea | Newstalk • John Connolly talks to Rick O’Shea: ‘A Kate Bush song primed me to enjoy one of the greatest chapters in literature’ • Sunday Times - Rick O’Shea on running the happiest place on the internet — his book club • Rick O’Shea: I’ll never forget the first time I got an author to sign a book – he dedicated it to a ‘very wise young man’ • Presenting Arena Monday 22 July 2024 • My Culture highlights of 2024 • The EIRSAT-1 Launch for the European Space Agency • Presenting Arena Tuesday 23 July 2024 • The Book Show - RTÉ Radio 1 • Writehawks 1 - Books Upstairs – November 2024 • New Writing for 2025 with Roisín O'Donnell, Sylvia Leatham and Claire Coughlan - UCD Festival 2025 • The Hollow City - Why Artists Can't Survive In Dublin in 2025 - UCD Festival 2025 • The Unexpected Tide - Exploring the Poetry of Folklore and Place - UCD Festival 2025 • Reeling In The Queers with Dr Páraic Kerrigan and Moderator Chandrika Naryanan-Mohan - UCD Festival 2025 • Shelf Analysis with Jan Carson and Paul Perry - Moderator Rick O'Shea - UCD Festival 2025 • An Audience with Sinéad Burke - UCD Festival 2025 • Rick O’Shea: One of America’s smartest political minds makes a brave admission about Israel • Apply for the Books at One Community Prize Fund • Dave Rudden talks to Rick O’Shea: ‘Every page in Manchán Magan’s book has a gem that reframes how you see the Irish language’ • Rick O’Shea: I wouldn’t want to live in the world of Strumpet City but I keep going back there • Rick O’Shea: If you’re enjoying the second season of The Last of Us, check out these books • Rick O’Shea: Everyone should read this vital word-of-mouth phenomenon • John Patrick McHugh talks to Rick O’Shea: ‘As EU citizens, we should all be obliged to read this book about the migrant crisis’ • Irish author Paul Lynch in the reckoning as shortlist revealed for this year’s €100,000 Dublin Literary Award • Rick O’Shea: The books that saved my fragile sanity during the Covid lockdown • Rick O’Shea: A dark, musty cave... that’s heaven for second-hand book lovers like us • Elif Shafak talks to Rick O’Shea: ‘Don Quixote made me feel less awkward as a child’ • Rick O’Shea: The book that will stop you envying those ultra-cool types on Instagram • Fighting Words NI Needs Your Help • Writehawks 3 at Books Upstairs - March 26th • A-book-radabra: Some tips and tricks to help you rediscover the magic of reading • Rick O’Shea: I tell myself I’m not a book hoarder, I just have a dose of tsundoku • Epilepsy Research Matters - March 12th • Naoise Dolan talks to Rick O’Shea: ‘It’s not enough to give readers pretty sentences’ • Culture Shack • Rick O’Shea: For anyone who can’t bear the minute-by-minute reports from Gaza, this book will give you the big picture • Rick O’Shea: How I fell in love with a land of lava, lagoons and a flood of books • Rick O’Shea: Have I been gravitating towards shorter books just to bump up the number I read in a year? • Rick O’Shea: Ferdia Lennon on friendship, fraught familial bonds and young love • Rick O’Shea: Galway city disappears underwater, Colum McCann takes a deep dive and Eimear McBride gives us a 90s love affair – my fiction to look forward to in 2025 • Rick O’Shea: Treat your bookshelf with my favourite reads of 2024 • Writehawks 2 - Thu Jan 30th • Rick O’Shea: Buying a gift for a choosy reader? I know just the thing • Kevin Barry: ‘I love an old-fashioned novel set in a big house with lots of deranged toffs’ • Rick O’Shea: I have a shelving system like late-stage capitalism — it’s out of control, based on constant growth and it’ll be the death of me • Spotify Playlist - The Shadow Show • Spotify Playlist - Headspace • The Rick O'Shea Book Club Xmas Appeal 2024 • Rick O’Shea: My favourite Christmas reads, and there’s not a Santa or a Dickens in sight • Rick O’Shea: My pre-pandemic panels are back and there’s a lot to talk about • ‘I rarely recommend a book if it doesn’t make me laugh’, Caoilinn Hughes tells Rick O’Shea about her favourite books • Rick O’Shea: how a terrorism trial, top-notch short stories and circling the Earth helped while away a week in the woods • Rick O’Shea: Three books that can help cure a Sally Rooney hangover • The Bookish Quiz (in aid of the Rick O'Shea Book Club Xmas Appeal) • CULTURE CRUSH 2024 - moderating panel on worldbuilding • Rick O’Shea: Scarily good reads to leave you shocked and unsettled • ‘It’s overdue’: Rónán Hession tells Rick O’Shea which Irishman he thinks should win the Nobel Prize for Literature • In conversation with Fríða Ísberg about The Mark - Gutter Bookshop • Rick O’Shea: The pilgrimage that showed me the true meaning of ‘it’s Baltic out here’ • Rick O’Shea: Spooky stories to give you the chills this Halloween • Rick O’Shea in conversation with Caoilinn Hughes and Cathy Sweeney at Leaves Festival 2024 in Laois • Writehawks with Sophie White, Karl Geary and Roe McDermott • Rick O’Shea: Don’t believe any unkind reviews – Sally Rooney’s new novel Intermezzo made me weep • ‘It is one of the most devastating books I’ve ever read about the entrapment of marriage’: Douglas Kennedy tells Rick O’Shea about his favourite novels • Judging Irish Book Awards • Rick O’Shea recommends wild and wonderful books for fans of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four • Rick O’Shea: The birthday gift that made me think I’ve been viewing life the wrong way for the last 51 years • The long haul: Rick O’Shea on epic books that are worth the extra reading time • ‘I laughed so hard my wife threatened to divorce me’ – Rick O’Shea’s favourite funny books • Dublin Literary Award 2024 • KPMG Children's Books Ireland Awards 2024 • Shelf Analysis with Viet Thanh Nguyen • Twitter (for the next few weeks only)