Rick O'Shea

Dublin

Broadcaster at RTÉ

Host at The Book Show

RTE Broadcaster. I left here at the end of 2023 so tweets and DMs won't be seen. Find me at the links in bio.

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Xinhua News | Xi hopes Malaysia trip to usher in a new "Golden 50 Years" for bilateral ties

1 week ago | today.line.me | Tian Dongdong |Rick O'Shea |He Xin

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday expressed hope that, with the joint efforts of China and Malaysia, his state visit to Malaysia will yield fruitful outcomes, ushering in a new "Golden 50 Years" for bilateral relations. #XinhuaNews
Xinhua News | China will resolutely take countermeasures if U.S. escalates tariff measures: commerce ministry

2 weeks ago | today.line.me | Zhang Yiyi |Rick O'Shea |Chen Zepeng

China will resolutely take countermeasures to safeguard its rights and interests should the United States escalate its tariff measures, the country's commerce ministry said Tuesday. #XinhuaNews
Xinhua News | EU considering 25 pct retaliatory tariffs on some U.S. goods: media

2 weeks ago | today.line.me | Zhang Zhaoqing |Ding Yinghua |Rick O'Shea |Chen Zepeng

The European Union (EU) on Monday proposed a 25 percent tariff on select U.S. products in response to President Donald Trump's recent decision to impose duties on European steel and aluminum imports. #XinhuaNews
John Patrick McHugh talks to Rick O’Shea: ‘As EU citizens, we should all be obliged to read this book about the migrant crisis’

3 weeks ago | independent.ie | Rick O'Shea

John Patrick McHugh talks to Rick O’Shea: ‘As EU citizens, we should all be obliged to read this book about the migrant crisis’The Galway author also picks Vladimir Nabokov’s memoir and ‘A Goat’s Song’ by the late Dermot Healy as his must-readsJohn Patrick McHugh. Photo: Bríd O'DonovanGalway author John Patrick McHugh has already had an acclaimed short story collection, 2021’s Pure Gold, and his upcoming novel Fun and Games is one of the Irish books with huge advance buzz this year.
Trump Goes Easy on EU Trade Tariffs

3 weeks ago | dailysquib.co.uk | Rick O'Shea

Donald Trump has gone easy on EU trade tariffs by only putting 20% tariff charges on EU exports to the US. Trump specifically accused the EU of imposing an effective tax rate of 39% on US goods, and singled out the bloc’s VAT and automobile tariff rates as well as its non-tariff barriers on US poultry.
Irish author Paul Lynch in the reckoning as shortlist revealed for this year’s €100,000 Dublin Literary Award

1 month ago | independent.ie | Rick O'Shea

Paul Lynch is the sole Irish contender for one of world literature’s largest prizesRarely a week passes on my social media feeds that doesn’t see another shortlist for a major international books award show up, but none are closer to home than the one announced today for the Dublin Literary Award sponsored by Dublin City Council, this year marking its 30th anniversary.
Irish author in the reckoning as shortlist revealed for this year’s €100,000 Dublin Literary Award

1 month ago | independent.ie | Rick O'Shea

Paul Lynch is the sole Irish contender for one of world literature’s largest prizesRarely a week passes on my social media feeds that doesn’t see another shortlist for a major international books award show up, but none are closer to home than the one announced today for the Dublin Literary Award sponsored by Dublin City Council, this year marking its 30th anniversary.
Rick O’Shea: The books that saved my fragile sanity during the Covid lockdown

1 month ago | independent.ie | Rick O'Shea

Why Sarah Winman’s Still Life, Richard Powers’ Bewilderment and Elisa Shua Dusapin’s Winter in Sokcho made for unforgettable lockdown readsYou’ll already know that it’s the fifth anniversary this coming week of Ireland’s first Covid lockdown. The week when, with my usual cool head, I teetered between thinking we’d all hunker down and get through it together and being panic-stricken that we might all be living in the pre-opening credits sequence of a mid-level Gerard Butler apocalypse movie.
Rick O’Shea: A dark, musty cave... that’s heaven for second-hand book lovers like us

1 month ago | independent.ie | Rick O'Shea

I like to think of myself as the latest custodian of the books I own, and that some day they might end up in a second-hand bookshop, giving joy to someone just like meAs an atheist, it feels strange to write this, but I think certain second-hand books may have a soul. If not a soul, at the very least a collective memory that they transfer from hand to hand over decades. I love them with a passion that I fear might, for the rest of the world, be slowly dying out.
Elif Shafak talks to Rick O’Shea: ‘Don Quixote made me feel less awkward as a child’

1 month ago | independent.ie | Rick O'Shea

The award-winning Turkish-British author shares her favourite books with a theme of belonging and what ‘home’ truly meansI’ve been a fan of the work of the award-winning Turkish-British writer Elif Shafak for a long time.

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