The Patients All Seemed Happy (Lianne O'Hara)
Commissioned by Grangegorman Histories, O’Hara’s work mines the National Archives of Ireland and uses original interviews to illuminate silenced lives and challenge historical erasure through vivid, unflinching poetry.
The Patients All Seemed Happy is the inaugural publication from Writing Ireland, a new imprint devoted to the creative use of archives to explore Irish social and cultural histories.
Lianne O’Hara is a poet and playwright. She is a participant of Irish Theatre Institute’s Six in the Attic Programme. Her play Baby won the 2024 Bewley’s Little Gem Award and will return to the theatre this year. Fluff had a sell out run in 2022. Her writing is published in Winter Papers, The Rialto, Arc Poetry Magazine, The London Magazine, Abridged, Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, and elsewhere.
Commissioned by Grangegorman Histories, O’Hara’s work mines the National Archives of Ireland and uses original interviews to illuminate silenced lives and challenge historical erasure through vivid, unflinching poetry.
The Patients All Seemed Happy is the inaugural publication from Writing Ireland, a new imprint devoted to the creative use of archives to explore Irish social and cultural histories.
Lianne O’Hara is a poet and playwright. She is a participant of Irish Theatre Institute’s Six in the Attic Programme. Her play Baby won the 2024 Bewley’s Little Gem Award and will return to the theatre this year. Fluff had a sell out run in 2022. Her writing is published in Winter Papers, The Rialto, Arc Poetry Magazine, The London Magazine, Abridged, Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, and elsewhere.
Commissioned by Grangegorman Histories, O’Hara’s work mines the National Archives of Ireland and uses original interviews to illuminate silenced lives and challenge historical erasure through vivid, unflinching poetry.
The Patients All Seemed Happy is the inaugural publication from Writing Ireland, a new imprint devoted to the creative use of archives to explore Irish social and cultural histories.
Lianne O’Hara is a poet and playwright. She is a participant of Irish Theatre Institute’s Six in the Attic Programme. Her play Baby won the 2024 Bewley’s Little Gem Award and will return to the theatre this year. Fluff had a sell out run in 2022. Her writing is published in Winter Papers, The Rialto, Arc Poetry Magazine, The London Magazine, Abridged, Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, and elsewhere.