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Australia, Canada, Essay, Feature, Fiction, Ireland, Literature, Poetry, Scotland, SUMMER23, UK, USA

Summer 2023 is here!

Featuring poetry & prose from across the world, this quarterly includes new work by Lorraine Carey, Nathanael O’Reilly, Áine Rose Connell, Eve Elliot, Gill Ryan, E.R. Murray, Fred Johnston, Ross…

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June 28, 2023
Essay, Fiction, Ireland, Literature, Poetry, SPRING23, UK, USA

Spring 2023 Released

Featuring poetry & prose from across the world, this quarterly includes new work by Nuala O’Connor, the late Kevin Higgins, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Gráinne Daly, Derville Quigley, Elizabeth Power, John…

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March 20, 2023
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,  Canada,  Essay,  Feature,  Fiction,  Ireland,  Literature,  Poetry,  Scotland,  SUMMER23,  UK,  USA

    Summer 2023 is here!

    Featuring poetry & prose from across the world, this quarterly includes new work by Lorraine Carey, Nathanael O’Reilly, Áine Rose Connell, Eve Elliot, Gill Ryan, E.R. Murray, Fred Johnston, Ross Moore, and Patrick O’Sullivan. Read the current issue here.

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    A Review of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Poetry

    April 12, 2022

    Patrick Kavanagh: a Reader’s Experience

    February 10, 2022

    Summer 2022 Released

    June 20, 2022
  • Essay,  Fiction,  Ireland,  Literature,  Poetry,  SPRING23,  UK,  USA

    Spring 2023 Released

    Featuring poetry & prose from across the world, this quarterly includes new work by Nuala O’Connor, the late Kevin Higgins, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Gráinne Daly, Derville Quigley, Elizabeth Power, John Noonan, Michael Begnal, & Katie Harper Garrett. Read the current issue here.

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    about:blank by Adam Wyeth

    January 15, 2022

    Winter 2022 Released

    December 31, 2022

    “On America” and Other Poems

    January 14, 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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    “On America” and Other Poems

    January 14, 2022

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

    March 12, 2021

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

    May 21, 2021
  • 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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    Patrick Kavanagh: a Reader’s Experience

    February 10, 2022

    Fall 2022 Released

    September 22, 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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    Winter 2022 Released

    December 31, 2022

    Beannachtaí Trasna

    January 9, 2022

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

    November 6, 2021
  • 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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    “On America” and Other Poems

    January 14, 2022

    Summer 2023 is here!

    June 28, 2023

    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 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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    ‘Only Connect’ – An Anthology of Poetry Written During the Pandemic

    November 6, 2021

    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 2022

    Summer 2023 is here!

    June 28, 2023
  • 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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    Summer 2022 Released

    June 20, 2022

    Winter 2022 Released

    December 31, 2022

    about:blank by Adam Wyeth

    January 15, 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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    Dairena Ní Chinnéide ~ “The Day the Blaskets were Nicked” and other poems

    March 26, 2021

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

    March 12, 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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    ‘Nora’, an excerpt, as read by its author Nuala O’Connor

    May 21, 2021

    Beannachtaí Trasna

    January 9, 2022

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

    March 12, 2021
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