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Essay, Fiction, Ireland, Literature, Poetry, UK, USA, WINTER22

Winter 2022 Released

Featuring poetry & prose from across the world, this quarterly includes new work by Alicia Byrne Keane, Kate Smyth, Ian Irwin, Beth Storey, Julie Breathnach-Banwait, Carrie Griffin, Mary Madec, &…

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December 31, 2022
Australia, Feature, Ireland, Literature, News, Poetry, USA

Some Days The Bird

Back in September, when Trasna released its Fall 2022 issue, we were delighted to include among the work a unique collaboration between American poet Heather Bourbeau and Irish-Australian poet Anne…

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November 13, 2022
FALL22, Fiction, Ireland, Literature, Poetry, USA

Fall 2022 Released

Featuring poetry and short fiction from across the world, this quarterly includes new work by Anne Casey & Heather Bourbeau, Diarmuid Cawley, Heather Corbally Bryant, Martin Simms, Máire T. Robinson,…

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September 22, 2022
Australia, Essay, Fiction, Ireland, Literature, Poetry, SUMMER22, UK, USA

Summer 2022 Released

Featuring poetry, an essay, and short fiction from across the world, the second quarterly of Trasna includes new work by Brittany Nohra, Nathanael O’Reilly, John Martin, Eugene O’Hare, Samuel Meyler,…

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June 20, 2022
Essay, Feature, Ireland

Playground of the Apocalypse

by Shane O’Neill The strand is ravaged by the storm that had raged for two days, uprooting weeds and hurling rocks huge distances along the beach. Large chunks of sand…

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May 31, 2022
  • Essay,  Fiction,  Ireland,  Literature,  Poetry,  UK,  USA,  WINTER22

    Winter 2022 Released

    Featuring poetry & prose from across the world, this quarterly includes new work by Alicia Byrne Keane, Kate Smyth, Ian Irwin, Beth Storey, Julie Breathnach-Banwait, Carrie Griffin, Mary Madec, & Jimmy Kerr. Read Issue #4 here.

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    Beannachtaí Trasna

    January 9, 2022

    ‘Nora’, an excerpt, as read by its author Nuala O’Connor

    May 21, 2021

    Patrick Kavanagh: a Reader’s Experience

    February 10, 2022
  • Australia,  Feature,  Ireland,  Literature,  News,  Poetry,  USA

    Some Days The Bird

    Back in September, when Trasna released its Fall 2022 issue, we were delighted to include among the work a unique collaboration between American poet Heather Bourbeau and Irish-Australian poet Anne Casey. Over the course of a full year, each poet had written a poem to the other in alternating weeks. What resulted was a wonderful collection of 52 poems in…

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    Dairena Ní Chinnéide ~ “The Day the Blaskets were Nicked” and other poems

    March 26, 2021

    Beannachtaí Trasna

    January 9, 2022

    Aguisín, (“Afterword”) a Reading by Aifric Mac Aodha

    March 12, 2021
  • FALL22,  Fiction,  Ireland,  Literature,  Poetry,  USA

    Fall 2022 Released

    Featuring poetry and short fiction from across the world, this quarterly includes new work by Anne Casey & Heather Bourbeau, Diarmuid Cawley, Heather Corbally Bryant, Martin Simms, Máire T. Robinson, and Daragh Fleming. Read Issue #3 here.

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    ‘Only Connect’ – An Anthology of Poetry Written During the Pandemic

    November 6, 2021

    “On America” and Other Poems

    January 14, 2022

    Some Days The Bird

    November 13, 2022
  • Australia,  Essay,  Fiction,  Ireland,  Literature,  Poetry,  SUMMER22,  UK,  USA

    Summer 2022 Released

    Featuring poetry, an essay, and short fiction from across the world, the second quarterly of Trasna includes new work by Brittany Nohra, Nathanael O’Reilly, John Martin, Eugene O’Hare, Samuel Meyler, Fred Johnston, Shane O’Neill, and Linda Whittenberg. Read Issue #2 here.

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    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 2022

    A Review of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Poetry

    April 12, 2022

    Patrick Kavanagh: a Reader’s Experience

    February 10, 2022
  • Essay,  Feature,  Ireland

    Playground of the Apocalypse

    by Shane O’Neill The strand is ravaged by the storm that had raged for two days, uprooting weeds and hurling rocks huge distances along the beach. Large chunks of sand have been torn away by the sea, leaving small dunes and bunkers for us to traverse unsteadily. The sky is still a heavy grey and we have to squint through…

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    ‘Nora’, an excerpt, as read by its author Nuala O’Connor

    May 21, 2021

    Dairena Ní Chinnéide ~ “The Day the Blaskets were Nicked” and other poems

    March 26, 2021

    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 2022
  • Review

    A Review of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Poetry

    by Lind Grant-Oyeye A common theme in reviews of her poetry is that Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s work is not restricted to space or time but shifts between realms and places. In the Dublin Review, Gerard Smyth characterizes the poet as one who shifts from the material world to the otherworld [1]. She is portrayed as focusing on the metaphysical, translating…

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    Fall 2022 Released

    September 22, 2022

    about:blank by Adam Wyeth

    January 15, 2022

    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 2022
  • Essay

    The everyday poetry of the half-wild North-Western Irish world

    Keith Brennan The ripple of birdsong has spread from the far valley and broken across the farm. If spring moves at a walking pace then perhaps the birdsong walks with it. Where we are, with the farm backed up against Hawthorn Hill, facing north, it sometimes walks a little slower still. Across the hill and down the valley, where the…

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    about:blank by Adam Wyeth

    January 15, 2022

    Dairena Ní Chinnéide ~ “The Day the Blaskets were Nicked” and other poems

    March 26, 2021

    Winter 2022 Released

    December 31, 2022
  • Australia,  Essay,  Fiction,  Ireland,  Literature,  News,  Poetry,  USA

    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    With poems and stories by Libby Hart, Stephen O’Connor, Mike Gallagher, S. C. Flynn, Marie O’Shea and Shane Leavy. Read Issue #1 here.

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    Patrick Kavanagh: a Reader’s Experience

    February 10, 2022

    Dairena Ní Chinnéide ~ “The Day the Blaskets were Nicked” and other poems

    March 26, 2021

    Beannachtaí Trasna

    January 9, 2022
  • Essay,  Feature,  Fiction,  Ireland,  Literature,  Review

    Patrick Kavanagh: a Reader’s Experience

    by Richard Hayes For generations of Irish readers—for this one certainly—the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh is inextricably associated with Soundings, the anthology of prescribed poetry for the Leaving Certificate English curriculum that was a staple of Irish secondary education from the end of the 1960s until the mid-1990s. Edited with sensitivity and skill by the late Augustine (“Gus”) Martin, then…

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    ‘Nora’, an excerpt, as read by its author Nuala O’Connor

    May 21, 2021

    Fall 2022 Released

    September 22, 2022

    Some Days The Bird

    November 13, 2022
  • News

    Call for Submissions

    For the past two years, Trasna has served as a weekly online platform introducing American readers to the latest writing from Ireland. We have featured work from established and emerging writers, through poetry, essays, and short fiction. In all there are over 80 independent posts that can be found at Trasna.online, as well as RichardHowe.com.  This year, in addition to…

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    Dairena Ní Chinnéide ~ “The Day the Blaskets were Nicked” and other poems

    March 26, 2021

    A Review of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Poetry

    April 12, 2022

    Playground of the Apocalypse

    May 31, 2022
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