Rick O'Shea
@rickoshea.bsky.social
Broadcaster @rte.ie - currently on Arena on @rteradio1.bsky.social.
Runs Ireland's largest book club, patron @epilepsyireland.bsky.social, board of Fighting Words NI.
Arts event curator and moderator.
Quizzer.
Links: https://linktr.ee/rickoshea
Runs Ireland's largest book club, patron @epilepsyireland.bsky.social, board of Fighting Words NI.
Arts event curator and moderator.
Quizzer.
Links: https://linktr.ee/rickoshea
Heya, this happens every year to be honest - we start really well over the first few days and then grind to a halt.
110 donations so far.
So, as it's payday for a few people in the next while, if you haven't seen the Xmas Appeal yet, maybe now is the time to make a donation.
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110 donations so far.
So, as it's payday for a few people in the next while, if you haven't seen the Xmas Appeal yet, maybe now is the time to make a donation.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Heya, this happens every year to be honest - we start really well over the first few days and then grind to a halt.
110 donations so far.
So, as it's payday for a few people in the next while, if you haven't seen the Xmas Appeal yet, maybe now is the time to make a donation.
🧵
110 donations so far.
So, as it's payday for a few people in the next while, if you haven't seen the Xmas Appeal yet, maybe now is the time to make a donation.
🧵
*** MY XMAS APPEAL 2025 ***
Every year at Christmas I run an appeal asking you to donate the price of a book (or whatever you can!) to some incredibly worthy charities who need funds at this time of year. So far, in 8 years I've raised over €250,000...
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Every year at Christmas I run an appeal asking you to donate the price of a book (or whatever you can!) to some incredibly worthy charities who need funds at this time of year. So far, in 8 years I've raised over €250,000...
🧵
(link at bottom)
November 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM
*** MY XMAS APPEAL 2025 ***
Every year at Christmas I run an appeal asking you to donate the price of a book (or whatever you can!) to some incredibly worthy charities who need funds at this time of year. So far, in 8 years I've raised over €250,000...
🧵
(link at bottom)
Every year at Christmas I run an appeal asking you to donate the price of a book (or whatever you can!) to some incredibly worthy charities who need funds at this time of year. So far, in 8 years I've raised over €250,000...
🧵
(link at bottom)
...Bryce Dessner discussing his new work at the NCH, Joel Edgerton on Train Dreams and an entire live show from The @dublinbookfest.bsky.social.
Listen back to them all on the @rteradio1.bsky.social website, @rte.ie radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts.
More tonight from 7pm...
Listen back to them all on the @rteradio1.bsky.social website, @rte.ie radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts.
More tonight from 7pm...
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
...Bryce Dessner discussing his new work at the NCH, Joel Edgerton on Train Dreams and an entire live show from The @dublinbookfest.bsky.social.
Listen back to them all on the @rteradio1.bsky.social website, @rte.ie radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts.
More tonight from 7pm...
Listen back to them all on the @rteradio1.bsky.social website, @rte.ie radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts.
More tonight from 7pm...
It was a busy week last week on Arena - from interviews with Lynne Ramsay on Die My Love, to Horslips bringing joy to Winter, Daniel Day-Lewis on his return to cinema,
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It was a busy week last week on Arena - from interviews with Lynne Ramsay on Die My Love, to Horslips bringing joy to Winter, Daniel Day-Lewis on his return to cinema,
I'm spending less and less and less time on socials.
If you do want to keep up with my nonsense, there's stuff on Instagram or you could just listen to Arena on @rteradio1.bsky.social every night from 7.
Tonight we check out the week's new TV and albums...
If you do want to keep up with my nonsense, there's stuff on Instagram or you could just listen to Arena on @rteradio1.bsky.social every night from 7.
Tonight we check out the week's new TV and albums...
November 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I'm spending less and less and less time on socials.
If you do want to keep up with my nonsense, there's stuff on Instagram or you could just listen to Arena on @rteradio1.bsky.social every night from 7.
Tonight we check out the week's new TV and albums...
If you do want to keep up with my nonsense, there's stuff on Instagram or you could just listen to Arena on @rteradio1.bsky.social every night from 7.
Tonight we check out the week's new TV and albums...
The last event I did before the very first lockdown in 2020 was with legendary photographer Martin Parr at the @shhomeplace.bsky.social. I didn't do another event with a live audience for quite a while afterwards...
Tonight we get to catch up as he'll be joining us on Arena from 7pm...
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Tonight we get to catch up as he'll be joining us on Arena from 7pm...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The last event I did before the very first lockdown in 2020 was with legendary photographer Martin Parr at the @shhomeplace.bsky.social. I didn't do another event with a live audience for quite a while afterwards...
Tonight we get to catch up as he'll be joining us on Arena from 7pm...
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Tonight we get to catch up as he'll be joining us on Arena from 7pm...
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Thanks so much to everyone who came to the @rte.ie Short Story Competition final at @paviliontheatre.bsky.social.
Thanks to everyone who put the show together, the judges, the writers, and to David Kitt (he's playing The Big Romance at the NCH - tx on sale on Tuesday!)
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Thanks to everyone who put the show together, the judges, the writers, and to David Kitt (he's playing The Big Romance at the NCH - tx on sale on Tuesday!)
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
October 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Thanks so much to everyone who came to the @rte.ie Short Story Competition final at @paviliontheatre.bsky.social.
Thanks to everyone who put the show together, the judges, the writers, and to David Kitt (he's playing The Big Romance at the NCH - tx on sale on Tuesday!)
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Thanks to everyone who put the show together, the judges, the writers, and to David Kitt (he's playing The Big Romance at the NCH - tx on sale on Tuesday!)
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Tonight on Arena, reviews from this year's Wexford Festival Opera, @liamcagney.bsky.social tells us about ‘Haunted Dancehall’ at the NCH, and two more finalists in this year’s @rte.ie Short Story Competition.
From 7pm on @rteradio1.bsky.social or listen back wherever you get your podcasts...
From 7pm on @rteradio1.bsky.social or listen back wherever you get your podcasts...
October 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Tonight on Arena, reviews from this year's Wexford Festival Opera, @liamcagney.bsky.social tells us about ‘Haunted Dancehall’ at the NCH, and two more finalists in this year’s @rte.ie Short Story Competition.
From 7pm on @rteradio1.bsky.social or listen back wherever you get your podcasts...
From 7pm on @rteradio1.bsky.social or listen back wherever you get your podcasts...
... and Jess Fahy took us through the new Picasso exhibition at the @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social.
All those and everything else from the week wherever you get your podcasts or on the Arena page on the @rteradio1.bsky.social website.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
All those and everything else from the week wherever you get your podcasts or on the Arena page on the @rteradio1.bsky.social website.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
October 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
... and Jess Fahy took us through the new Picasso exhibition at the @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social.
All those and everything else from the week wherever you get your podcasts or on the Arena page on the @rteradio1.bsky.social website.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
All those and everything else from the week wherever you get your podcasts or on the Arena page on the @rteradio1.bsky.social website.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
If you missed Arena so far this week, I talked to Mark Ronson about his book on DJing in 90s New York, Eimear McBride reviewed Waiting For Godot on Broadway, Alex Lawther told me about playing Leonard in Leonard And Hungry Paul (and his love for cheese toasties in Grogan's)...
October 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
If you missed Arena so far this week, I talked to Mark Ronson about his book on DJing in 90s New York, Eimear McBride reviewed Waiting For Godot on Broadway, Alex Lawther told me about playing Leonard in Leonard And Hungry Paul (and his love for cheese toasties in Grogan's)...
Last night was one of the most extraordinary programmes I've ever been part of, celebrating the new 'The Poems of Seamus Heaney' volume.
If you managed to snap up a ticket, thank you so much for coming. All of the credit to the amazing @rte_arena team for bringing it all together.
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If you managed to snap up a ticket, thank you so much for coming. All of the credit to the amazing @rte_arena team for bringing it all together.
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October 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Last night was one of the most extraordinary programmes I've ever been part of, celebrating the new 'The Poems of Seamus Heaney' volume.
If you managed to snap up a ticket, thank you so much for coming. All of the credit to the amazing @rte_arena team for bringing it all together.
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If you managed to snap up a ticket, thank you so much for coming. All of the credit to the amazing @rte_arena team for bringing it all together.
🧵
This is just awful.
I met him a few times at events and festivals over the years, and he was always such a positive presence, and the work he has done to make people think about both their relationships with the Irish language and the natural world was work he should have...
I met him a few times at events and festivals over the years, and he was always such a positive presence, and the work he has done to make people think about both their relationships with the Irish language and the natural world was work he should have...
October 3, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This is just awful.
I met him a few times at events and festivals over the years, and he was always such a positive presence, and the work he has done to make people think about both their relationships with the Irish language and the natural world was work he should have...
I met him a few times at events and festivals over the years, and he was always such a positive presence, and the work he has done to make people think about both their relationships with the Irish language and the natural world was work he should have...
Yes, I brought books set in Japan on my holiday there (and that was before I bought more!)
Seicho Matsumoto's Tokyo Express (tr. Jesse Kirkwood) is a murder-mystery from 1958, the solution to which all hangs on physical train timetables.
Seicho Matsumoto's Tokyo Express (tr. Jesse Kirkwood) is a murder-mystery from 1958, the solution to which all hangs on physical train timetables.
September 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Yes, I brought books set in Japan on my holiday there (and that was before I bought more!)
Seicho Matsumoto's Tokyo Express (tr. Jesse Kirkwood) is a murder-mystery from 1958, the solution to which all hangs on physical train timetables.
Seicho Matsumoto's Tokyo Express (tr. Jesse Kirkwood) is a murder-mystery from 1958, the solution to which all hangs on physical train timetables.
I, understandably, didn't take many pictures before the @rteradio1.bsky.social Arena Culture Night special on Friday, but I do think our guests were fantastic.
You can listen back www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... or wherever you get your podcasts.
You can listen back www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... or wherever you get your podcasts.
September 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I, understandably, didn't take many pictures before the @rteradio1.bsky.social Arena Culture Night special on Friday, but I do think our guests were fantastic.
You can listen back www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... or wherever you get your podcasts.
You can listen back www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... or wherever you get your podcasts.
Tonight on Arena it's our Culture Night spectacular live from Studio 1!
We'll be joined by @olionaird.bsky.social, Tolu Makay, Tríona and Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, MacDara Yeates, Christine Dwyer Hickey and many more.
Tonight from the earlier time of 6.30 on @rteradio1.bsky.social.
We'll be joined by @olionaird.bsky.social, Tolu Makay, Tríona and Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, MacDara Yeates, Christine Dwyer Hickey and many more.
Tonight from the earlier time of 6.30 on @rteradio1.bsky.social.
September 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Tonight on Arena it's our Culture Night spectacular live from Studio 1!
We'll be joined by @olionaird.bsky.social, Tolu Makay, Tríona and Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, MacDara Yeates, Christine Dwyer Hickey and many more.
Tonight from the earlier time of 6.30 on @rteradio1.bsky.social.
We'll be joined by @olionaird.bsky.social, Tolu Makay, Tríona and Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, MacDara Yeates, Christine Dwyer Hickey and many more.
Tonight from the earlier time of 6.30 on @rteradio1.bsky.social.
I was in Japan on holliers, there are photos.
Pop over to www.facebook.com/therickoshea/ or www.instagram.com/therickoshea for the lot...
Pop over to www.facebook.com/therickoshea/ or www.instagram.com/therickoshea for the lot...
September 19, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I was in Japan on holliers, there are photos.
Pop over to www.facebook.com/therickoshea/ or www.instagram.com/therickoshea for the lot...
Pop over to www.facebook.com/therickoshea/ or www.instagram.com/therickoshea for the lot...
September 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
September 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This should be enough, right?
See you back on Arena in a few weeks...
See you back on Arena in a few weeks...
August 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This should be enough, right?
See you back on Arena in a few weeks...
See you back on Arena in a few weeks...
A fine first night of the week on Arena with new Irish theatre at the Dublin Fringe, one of the voices from Frozen with the @rteco.rte.ie, and picking apart 40 years of Studio Ghibli with @johnmaguire.bsky.social.
Listen back here or wherever you get your podcasts.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Listen back here or wherever you get your podcasts.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
August 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
A fine first night of the week on Arena with new Irish theatre at the Dublin Fringe, one of the voices from Frozen with the @rteco.rte.ie, and picking apart 40 years of Studio Ghibli with @johnmaguire.bsky.social.
Listen back here or wherever you get your podcasts.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Listen back here or wherever you get your podcasts.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
It has been a week and a half of a week so far...
August 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It has been a week and a half of a week so far...
It was a long and varied week on Arena.
Led Zeppelin, trad and baroque music, new film and TV, two new plays at the Fringe...
Listen back to it all at www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hope you can join me all next week from 6.30 on @rteradio1.bsky.social.
Led Zeppelin, trad and baroque music, new film and TV, two new plays at the Fringe...
Listen back to it all at www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hope you can join me all next week from 6.30 on @rteradio1.bsky.social.
August 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
It was a long and varied week on Arena.
Led Zeppelin, trad and baroque music, new film and TV, two new plays at the Fringe...
Listen back to it all at www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hope you can join me all next week from 6.30 on @rteradio1.bsky.social.
Led Zeppelin, trad and baroque music, new film and TV, two new plays at the Fringe...
Listen back to it all at www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hope you can join me all next week from 6.30 on @rteradio1.bsky.social.
Tonight on Arena it's Friday, so it's TV and music review night.
We'll be looking at, amongst many other new releases, the new Alien: Earth series and the latest album from Alison Goldfrapp.
Live at 6.30 on @rteradio1.bsky.social, listen back afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.
We'll be looking at, amongst many other new releases, the new Alien: Earth series and the latest album from Alison Goldfrapp.
Live at 6.30 on @rteradio1.bsky.social, listen back afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.
August 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Tonight on Arena it's Friday, so it's TV and music review night.
We'll be looking at, amongst many other new releases, the new Alien: Earth series and the latest album from Alison Goldfrapp.
Live at 6.30 on @rteradio1.bsky.social, listen back afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.
We'll be looking at, amongst many other new releases, the new Alien: Earth series and the latest album from Alison Goldfrapp.
Live at 6.30 on @rteradio1.bsky.social, listen back afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.
Last night's Arena is up - I talked to absolute forces of nature Sophie O'Toole and Trudy Nolan about their Dublin Fringe play, noodled with Alan Corr about the new Led Zeppelin documentary, and Martin Hayes told me about this year's Masters Of Tradition festival.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
August 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Last night's Arena is up - I talked to absolute forces of nature Sophie O'Toole and Trudy Nolan about their Dublin Fringe play, noodled with Alan Corr about the new Led Zeppelin documentary, and Martin Hayes told me about this year's Masters Of Tradition festival.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
August 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM