This event takes place in the Bartley Lounge, Grafton Hotel.

The pens are down and the volume’s up as Holy Show alumni and DBF guests swap words for beats. In collaboration with ddr residents FARO-P and Mittelschmerz, expect eclectic sets from poet and playwright Lianne O’Hara, writers Rob Doyle, Nicole Flattery and Róisín Kiberd, and DJ Iconik (aka poet and cartoonist Eoin Rogers).

This is a free event. Alternatively, by choosing a donation ticket to any amount, you would be contributing towards keeping DBF events accessible for all.

This is an 18+ event.

Please note we may be capturing candid imagery at this event for use on our social media and website.

Lianne O’Hara is a poet and playwright. Her play Baby won the 2024 Little Gem Award and recently finished its run at Bewley’s Café Theatre. 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 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.

Rob Doyle is the author of the story collection This is the Ritual and the novels Here are the Young Men, recently made into a film, and Threshold, shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2021. His forthcoming novel is Cameo, publishing in January 2026.

Nicole Flattery is the author of the novel Nothing Special and the story collection Show Them a Good Time. She is the winner of the An Post Irish Book Award, the Kate O’Brien Prize, the London Magazine Prize for Debut Fiction, and the White Review Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared in the Stinging Fly, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, and elsewhere.

Róisín Kiberd has written essays and features for The Dublin Review, Winter Papers, The White Review, The Guardian and Vice, among other places. Her first book, The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet, was published by Serpent’s Tail in 2021. She lectures in creative writing at the University of Galway.

Eoin Rogers is literary programmer and writer from Dublin. His writing has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Abridged, and elsewhere. In 2024 Holy Show commissioned his comics to feature in an exhibition in the Museum of Literature Ireland.

Mittelschmerz and FARO-P are digital creators, educators and radio producers living in the greater Dublin area. Their art, education and organising backgrounds foreground participatory art making in music and radio, and organising diverse communities to express and achieve their demands for a better world. They are residents of Dublin Digital Radio (ddr) and founding members of the Community Action Tenants Union (CATU).

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