13-16 June 2024

Rick O’Shea

Broadcaster

Biography

Rick has been a radio presenter with RTE since 2001; prior to 2017 on RTE 2FM and since then presenting weekday mornings and jazz show The Gold Lounge on RTE Gold. He is also a previous presenter of The Book Show and The Poetry Programme, both on RTE Radio 1. He runs The Rick O’Shea Book Club – Ireland’s largest book club with almost 40,000 members and recommends the Eason Must Reads lists 4 times a year with author Sinéad Moriarty.Rick has presented the International Dublin Literary Award ceremony, CBI Book Of The Year Awards, RTE Francis McManus Short Story Competition Ceremony and has co-presented the Irish Book Awards on RTE One TV. He is part of the voting academy for the An Post Irish Book Awards, and has been a judge for the Bookseller UK and Ireland Young Adult Book Prize, the Costa Book Awards, and was a judging chair at the Dalkey Literary Awards in 2020. He has also been a judge at the Dublin Fringe Theatre Festival and one of the ambassadors for Irish Book Week.

All sessions by Rick O’Shea

Online Gurus, Shams and Charlatans

17 Jun 2023
14:30-15:30
St Patrick's Church

SOLD OUT: Liz Nugent in conversation

17 Jun 2023
18:00-19:00
Town Hall

SOLD OUT: Sebastian Barry: Old God’s Time

18 Jun 2023
15:00-16:00
Seafront Marquee