Lianne O’Hara is a poet and playwright.

Her play Baby won the 2024 ‘Little Gem’ Award and runs 14 April—3 May at Bewley’s Café Theatre (tickets) followed by dates in Listowel, Thurles, Blanchardstown, and Dundalk.

The Patients All Seemed Happy (Writing Ireland | New Dublin Press, 2025) ‘a powerful evocation of forgotten voices from Grangegorman asylum’ is now available to order

Other writing is published in Poetry Ireland Review, The Cormorant, gorse, Winter Papers, The Rialto, Arc Poetry Magazine, The London Magazine, Abridged, Banshee, and elsewhere. Fluff had a sell out run at Dublin Fringe.

Lianne is a participant of Irish Theatre Institute’s Six in the Attic programme. 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 and is represented by Peter Straus at Rogers, Coleridge & White.