Lianne O’Hara

Lianne O’Hara is a poet and playwright.

Her play Baby won the 2024 Little Gem Award and had a three-week run at Bewley’s Café Theatre this spring. 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.

Her 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 Irish Theatre Institute’s Six in the Attic programme and Dublin Theatre Festival’s The Next Stage. In 2024 she received the Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry and a Theatre Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland. She teaches creative writing at University College Dublin.