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Essay, Fiction, Ireland, Literature, Poetry, UK, USA, WINTER25

Winter/Spring issue 2025 is here!

Featuring poetry & prose from across the world, this issue includes new work by Neil McCarthy, Seán Carlson, Máighréad Medbh, Jen Herron, Megeen R. Mulholland, Máire T. Robinson, Seán McNicholl,…

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February 10, 2025
Essay, Fiction, Ireland, Literature, Poetry, SPRING24, UK, USA

Spring 2024 is here!

Featuring poetry & prose from across the world, this issue includes new work by Lisa Bellamy, Elizabeth Gibson, Claire Hennessy, Jim Maguire, Virginie Trachsler, Ruadhán MacFadden, Christina Hennemann, Muiread O’Hanlon,…

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March 21, 2024
Essay, Fiction, Ireland, Literature, Poetry, Scotland, UK, USA, WINTER23

Winter 2023 Arrives

Featuring poetry & prose from across the world, this packed quarterly includes new work by Mary O’Donnell, Finola Cahill, Gill Barr, Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi, Niamh Donnellan, Ciara Broderick, Mauk Donnabháin,…

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January 4, 2024
Feature, Ireland, Literature, Poetry, USA

A Celtic Sojourn

For over twenty years famed Boston radio host Brian O’Donovan spread holiday cheer with his annual production of “A Christmas Celtic Sojourn.” From an oversized, red chair, O’Donovan presented to…

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December 20, 2023
Archives, Essay, FALL23, Feature, Ireland, Literature, Poetry, UK, USA

Fall 2023 Lands

Featuring poetry & prose from across the world, this quarterly includes new work by Mary O’Donnell, Reyzl Grace, Mark Granier, Ellen Brickley, Mary Wilkinson, and Kathleen Williamson. Read the current…

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October 6, 2023
  • 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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    Summer 2023 is here!

    June 28, 2023

    Summer 2022 Released

    June 20, 2022

    Some Days The Bird

    November 13, 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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    Spring 2023 Released

    March 20, 2023

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

    March 17, 2022

    Fall 2023 Lands

    October 6, 2023
  • 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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    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 2022

    Some Days The Bird

    November 13, 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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    Playground of the Apocalypse

    May 31, 2022

    A Celtic Sojourn

    December 20, 2023

    Some Days The Bird

    November 13, 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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    Aguisín, (“Afterword”) a Reading by Aifric Mac Aodha

    March 12, 2021

    Fall 2023 Lands

    October 6, 2023

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

    March 26, 2021
  • 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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    about:blank by Adam Wyeth

    January 15, 2022

    “On America” and Other Poems

    January 14, 2022

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

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

    January 14, 2022

    Fall 2023 Lands

    October 6, 2023

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

    March 12, 2021
  • 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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    ‘Only Connect’ – An Anthology of Poetry Written During the Pandemic

    November 6, 2021

    Fall 2023 Lands

    October 6, 2023

    “On America” and Other Poems

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

    November 6, 2021

    “On America” and Other Poems

    January 14, 2022

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

    March 12, 2021
  • 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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    ‘Only Connect’ – An Anthology of Poetry Written During the Pandemic

    November 6, 2021

    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
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