Rick O’Shea is a broadcaster with RTE – currently on weekdays on RTE Gold. He was previously a presenter on RTE2FM and of The Book Show on RTE Radio 1.

He writes a weekly books column for the Irish Independent, runs Ireland’s largest book club – The Rick O’Shea Book Club on Facebook, and hosts and curates public author interviews at festivals.

Rick is also a literary curator for the annual UCD Festival, a national patron of Epilepsy Ireland, and a board member of Fighting Words NI in Belfast.

He’s a former judge of the Costa Book Awards, Dalkey Literary Awards, Dublin Fringe Festival, and a previous curator of Waterford Writers Weekend.