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, Bluesky. Besides social media accounts, rickoshea has populated their site with Arena host Rick O’Shea: ‘I’m going to say it out loud. I have no self-esteem of any kind’ – The Irish Times, Hosting Student Enterprise Awards 2026, Books At One Community Prize Fund 2026, Really getting lost in a good book is one way to find better mental health – The Irish Times, Ireland Reads 2026, Rick O’Shea: Why 2026 is going to be a special year for fiction fans | Irish Independent, Rick O’Shea’s best books of 2025: Great reads you might have missed this year | Irish Independent, Listen back to Arena on RTÉ Radio 1, Writehawks 3 - Books Upstairs – March 2025, Writehawks 2 - Books Upstairs – January 2025, Literary Curator - UCD Festival, Tickets for Writehawks 5 at Books Upstairs, The Rick O'Shea Book Club, 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, Remembering Sean Rocks | Arena - RTÉ Radio 1, National Patron Of Epilepsy Ireland, Books At One Community Fund Recipients - Books Ireland, Board of Fighting Words NI, Rick O’Shea: Vanished tribal customs, a serial killer sister and other books that vividly evoke Nigeria, Writehawks 4 - Books Upstairs - June 2025, Writehawks 5 - Books Upstairs - February 2026, Rick O’Shea: Addiction and the apocalypse never sounded so appealing, Rick O’Shea: You'd like to think school libraries had improved since my days at Drimnagh Castle but they haven’t much, Dalkey Book Festival - Writing From the Edge with Elif Shafak, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Donal Ryan and Nelofer Pazira-Fisk, Celebrity Mastermind 2012, Rick O'Shea appointed new presenter of Arena, Dalkey Book Festival - Joseph O'Neill: An Exile Returns, ‘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 - Finding Mangan with Bridget Hourican, Dublin, One City, Many Stories, Episode 5, Dalkey Book Festival - Politics of Empathy with Frida Isberg, Rick O’Shea - Me & My Money, John Connolly talks to Rick O’Shea: ‘A Kate Bush song primed me to enjoy one of the greatest chapters in literature’, The Thursday Interview: Rick O’Shea | Newstalk, 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’, Sunday Times - Rick O’Shea on running the happiest place on the internet — his book club, My Culture highlights of 2024, Presenting Arena Monday 22 July 2024, Presenting Arena Tuesday 23 July 2024, The EIRSAT-1 Launch for the European Space Agency, New Writing for 2025 with Roisín O'Donnell, Sylvia Leatham and Claire Coughlan - UCD Festival 2025, Writehawks 1 - Books Upstairs – November 2024, The Book Show - RTÉ Radio 1, 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).