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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, 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
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    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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    about:blank by Adam Wyeth

    January 15, 2022

    Fall 2022 Released

    September 22, 2022

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

    March 17, 2022
  • Feature,  Ireland,  Literature,  Poetry

    about:blank by Adam Wyeth

    about:blank by Adam Wyeth, is a piece of writing that both defies categorization and pays homage to the great literary innovators of the 20th and early-21st century.

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    Fall 2022 Released

    September 22, 2022

    Patrick Kavanagh: a Reader’s Experience

    February 10, 2022

    A Review of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Poetry

    April 12, 2022
  • Archives,  Feature,  Poetry

    “On America” and Other Poems

    Trasna is pleased to announce that poet Dan Murphy will join its team of editors. This week we feature four of his poems. Whether it’s a “rusty gate in a field of rock,” or “the cream cheese on your cheek,” Murphy explores the expansive to the intimate.

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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

    Fall 2022 Released

    September 22, 2022
  • Feature

    Beannachtaí Trasna

    In this first post on our new website we offer a blessing to all as we enter this new year of 2022. Here, Mawie Barrett, in her specially written Celtic Druid blessing weaves together connections from Ireland to Lowell and beyond.

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

    May 21, 2021

    A Review of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Poetry

    April 12, 2022

    “On America” and Other Poems

    January 14, 2022
  • Archives,  Feature

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

    This week on Trasna we feature a new publication by Beir Bua Press, ‘Only Connect,’ an anthology of poetry and prose written during the pandemic and shared weekly with a group of writers on Zoom sessions led by Margaret O’Brien

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    about:blank by Adam Wyeth

    January 15, 2022

    A Review of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Poetry

    April 12, 2022

    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 2022
  • Archives,  Feature,  Fiction

    Daniel Wade reads from ‘A Land Without Wolves’

    Daniel Wade, award-winning playwright, poet, essayist, and novelist, is making his second appearance in Trasna this week. Following his memorable tribute to poet Dermot Healy, last year, Dublin-born Wade has been actively pursuing his writing career and is now celebrating the release of his historical novel, A Land Without Wolves.

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

    March 26, 2021

    Playground of the Apocalypse

    May 31, 2022

    Some Days The Bird

    November 13, 2022
  • Archives,  Poetry

    “Reshaping the Light” by Breda Joyce

    Autumn is the season that embraces reflection: thoughtful persons give thanks for their harvest even as they mourn the [human] losses that befell them during the time past. In the poems she reads for Trasna, works from her newly published collection Reshaping the Light.

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    “On America” and Other Poems

    January 14, 2022

    Some Days The Bird

    November 13, 2022

    Summer 2022 Released

    June 20, 2022
  • Archives,  Feature

    “Even the Heather Bled” by Joe McGowan

    On the morning of Wednesday September 20th 1922 – the closing months of the Irish Civil War – soldiers of the Freestate army shot dead six anti-Treaty Volunteers atop Sligo’s Benbulben Mountain. How did it come about?

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    Beannachtaí Trasna

    January 9, 2022

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

    May 21, 2021

    Some Days The Bird

    November 13, 2022
  • Archives,  Poetry

    “Wasp on the Prayer Flag” a Collection of Haiku Poetry by Maeve O’Sullivan

    Back from its extended summer break, Trasna is please to present the latest publication from poet Maeve O’Sullivan, Wasp on the Prayer Flag. This is Maeve’s fifth collection with Alba Publishing. It chronicles the years from 2018-2021 in haiku and senryu. Rooted in Ireland and its varied landscapes, with some ‘postcards’ from the UK and Europe, this collection celebrates the inspiration and consolation…

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

    May 21, 2021

    Spring 2023 Released

    March 20, 2023

    Beannachtaí Trasna

    January 9, 2022
  • Archives

    Trasna writers in The Lowell Review 2021

    The Lowell Review Several writers featured in Trasna (2020) have been included in a new annual publication, The Lowell Review. Copies of The Lowell Review are available for purchase, or online through Richardhowe.com. Below are selections from those Trasna pieces included in the 2021 edition with selections from 2020. We look forward to the 2022 volume with pieces from this year. The belated…

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

    May 21, 2021

    Call for Submissions

    January 23, 2022

    Summer 2022 Released

    June 20, 2022
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