"An Evening with Great Irish Writers" is just that - a stand up performance of extracts from the works of some of the great writers to come out of Ireland. -  the older cohort such as Swift, Wilde, Shaw, Yeats, Synge, Joyce.  There is no particular theme, no particular arc, just the fact that all of these writers breathed in some kind of creative air in Ireland giving us an extraordinary variety of characters, styles and cleverness.  Wonderful material full of humor and pathos - to entertain us and to give us pause for thought.  

Neil O'Shea is an actor from Dublin, Ireland. He has appeared in many theatres in Ireland, including the Abbey Theatre, the National Theatre of Ireland. He has toured many times with the Irish Actors Theatre Company in Europe and the USA.  He has performed his 'An Evening with Great Irish Writers' throughout Ireland, in Germany, Sweden, London, as well as in the USA. For many years he presented a lunch-time version of the show, 'The Irish Writers Entertain,' at the Dublin Writers Museum.

In 2020 he was invited to do the show in-house at Netflix in Los Angeles. In 2022 Neil performed “An Evening with Great Irish Writers” at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, where he also he performed another show based on a short story he wrote called “The Tragic-Comedy of Things.” In 2023 he returned to Edinburgh to perform a show about James Joyce and his brother called ''Stanislaus and James.” 

Neil has also had a career in radio broadcasting presenting programmes on RTE 1, the Irish National station, where he went on to work as an announcer, researcher and writer and performer of late night humorous sketches on RTE Television.