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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
  • Archives,  Essay

    ‘A Morning Walk’ from “Intimate City: Dublin Essays” by Peter Sirr

    Featured in today’s Irish Times is a collection of essays by prize-winning poet, Peter Sirr: “Intimate City: Dublin Essays.” This week, Trasna is pleased to present ‘A morning walk,’ one of the essays from this brilliant collection.  Sirr’s essays explore Dublin’s past and present; travel its narrow lanes; meditate on its earliest map; and contemplate the impact a place can…

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    A Review of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Poetry

    April 12, 2022

    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 2022

    Playground of the Apocalypse

    May 31, 2022
  • Archives

    Felicity Hayes-McCoy and “The Year of Lost and Found”

    Felicity Hayes-McCoy’s latest novel, “The Year of  Lost and Found,” again takes place on Ireland’s fictional Finfarran peninsula. It is a novel about ordinary people with extraordinary secrets. Set in 2018, it takes place in the lead-up to the year of Ireland’s Civil War commemorations, and explores shared, hidden, and revealed family memories.  Warmth and humour are central to Felicity…

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    Summer 2022 Released

    June 20, 2022

    Call for Submissions

    January 23, 2022

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

    March 26, 2021
  • Archives,  Poetry

    Linda Ibbotson, “Homage to Kinsale” and Other Writings

    As we reach mid-June with the fervor to celebrate the season and enjoy beloved places, Trasna welcomes Linda Ibbotson and her tribute to the beauty of the coastal town Kinsale, to the legacy of Irish culture, and her creative collaboration with Russian pianist and composer Arsentiy Kharitonov. A gifted poet and lyricist, whose artwork and photographs have won acclaim, Ibbotson…

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    about:blank by Adam Wyeth

    January 15, 2022

    Spring 2023 Released

    March 20, 2023

    “On America” and Other Poems

    January 14, 2022
  • Archives,  Poetry

    New Poems from Linda Whittenberg

    Linda Whittenberg first connected with Ireland through her beloved Irish grandfather, Will Shannon, with whom she spent her childhood in the Illinois farmland where she was born. As a Unitarian-Universalist minister in the United States, she served congregations in the West before launching her voice as a poet. During Writers’ Week in Listowel, County Kerry, in 2014, she launched her…

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    Call for Submissions

    January 23, 2022

    about:blank by Adam Wyeth

    January 15, 2022

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

    March 17, 2022
  • Archives

    Theresa Jones reads “Bridget or Pat” and other work

    This week Trasna is pleased to present the work of Theresa Jones, whose writing frequently focuses on place, location and dislocation. We open with her reading of her poem, “Bridget or Pat”, which treats of the challenges of her mother’s identity as an immigrant to the UK, and raises the question of who has the power to name. We follow with…

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    about:blank by Adam Wyeth

    January 15, 2022

    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 2022

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

    November 6, 2021
  • Archives

    “Listening in: Radio Dramas in a Virtual Realm” by Margaret O’Brien

    Many of us are discovering that the most amazing things can be achieved when people pool their talents and resources, even during a pandemic. Maybe especially during a pandemic. And this week’s post on Trasna, the ‘Radio Drama in a Virtual Realm’ project, is the result of just such a pooling of talent and a model of what can be achieved…

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    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 2022

    Winter 2022 Released

    December 31, 2022

    Beannachtaí Trasna

    January 9, 2022
  • Archives,  Fiction

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

    This week on Trasna we are very pleased to present writer, Nuala O’Connor, reading an excerpt from her most recent novel, NORA. The eponymous Nora was, of course, Nora Barnacle, lover, wife and soulmate to writer James Joyce. In her novel O’Connor gives us Nora’s distinctive character, voice and original world view as the couple scrape a living in various parts of…

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    Patrick Kavanagh: a Reader’s Experience

    February 10, 2022

    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 2022

    Spring 2023 Released

    March 20, 2023
  • Archives,  Fiction

    ‘Hope against Hope’ a Historical Novel by Sheena Wilkinson

    Trasna is pleased to present a work of historical fiction, ‘Hope against Hope’ by Sheena Wilkinson. This is the third outstanding work of historical fiction by the multi-award-winning Sheena Wilkinson. It follows the fantastically successful ‘Star by Star’, which won the Children’s Books Ireland Honour Award for Fiction in 2018 and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards.  Star was selected…

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    Spring 2023 Released

    March 20, 2023

    Fall 2022 Released

    September 22, 2022

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

    March 17, 2022
  • Archives,  Fiction

    Tom Sigafoos ~ The Cursing Stone, a novel

    We are pleased to present here the opening scenes from a new historical novel by writer Tom Sigafoos. “The Cursing Stone” is set on Tory Island, off the coast of County Donegal in northwest Ireland. The year is 1884 and the islanders are threatened with mass evictions. What are they willing to do to prevent them happening? Tom Sigafoos has previously appeared…

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

    March 12, 2021

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

    March 26, 2021

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

    March 17, 2022
  • Archives,  Poetry

    Daniel Wade reads from Rapids

    What better way for Trasna to honor the conclusion of National Poetry Month in the United States–and celebrate the First Anniversary of Trasna–than with the current work of Daniel Wade, a rising star in the world of poetry! An award-winning playwright and a novelist as well, Wade appeared in Trasna in November, 2020, with his insightful tribute to his mentor,…

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    about:blank by Adam Wyeth

    January 15, 2022

    A Review of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Poetry

    April 12, 2022

    Beannachtaí Trasna

    January 9, 2022
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