Rick O'Shea
Broadcaster @rte.ie - on @rtegold.bsky.social.
Books columnist @independent.ie, runs Ireland's largest book club.
Patron @epilepsyireland.bsky.social, board of Fighting Words NI, literary curator UCD Festival 2025.
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- This week in the column, I rattle on a lot about theatre and art, hoping my editor would let me get way with it. He did. Recent reading includes new novels from Seán Hewitt and @jennymustard.bsky.social and the most recent series of essays from Ta-Nehisi Coates. In Saturday's @independent.ie or: