READING | Lianne O’Hara in conversation with Simon Costello

We look forward to inviting you in for an afternoon with poet Lianne O’Hara, in conversation with Simon Costello, reading from her latest collection, The Patients All Seemed Happy. In this collection, as part of the Grangegorman histories project, O’Hara draws from archival material surrounding Dublin’s oldest psychiatric institution. A place for the unwanted turned into university campus: these poems give voice to those who were silenced and questions what history we risk erasing.

Attendance is free, but booking is essential.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

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. The Patients All Seemed Happy (2025) is published by Writing Ireland. Other writing has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Winter Papers, The London Magazine, and elsewhere.

Simon Costello is a writer from Tullamore, Co. Offaly. His poetry and essays have been published/forthcoming in  Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times, and elsewhere. He was been awarded first prize in The Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry in 2024.