Lianne O’Hara

Lianne O’Hara is a poet and playwright.

Her play Baby won the Little Gem Award and had a three-week run at Bewley’s Café Theatre in 2025. Her debut Fluff had a sell out run at Dublin Fringe.

The Patients All Seemed Happy (2025) ‘a powerful evocation of forgotten voices from Grangegorman asylum’ is published by Writing Ireland | New Dublin Press.

Other writing has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, gorse, Winter Papers, The Rialto, Arc Poetry Magazine, The London Magazine, Abridged, Banshee, and elsewhere.

Lianne was a 2025 participant of Six in the Attic (Irish Theatre Institute), The Next Stage (Dublin Theatre Festival), and MAKE. In 2024 she received the Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry.

She teaches creative writing at University College Dublin.