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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
  • 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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    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

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

    March 26, 2021
  • 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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    ‘Only Connect’ – An Anthology of Poetry Written During the Pandemic

    November 6, 2021

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

    May 21, 2021

    “On America” and Other Poems

    January 14, 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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    ‘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

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

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

    January 14, 2022

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

    March 12, 2021

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

    November 6, 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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    ‘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

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

    November 6, 2021

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

    March 26, 2021

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

    May 21, 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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    Fall 2023 Lands

    October 6, 2023

    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
  • 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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    “On America” and Other Poems

    January 14, 2022

    Fall 2023 Lands

    October 6, 2023

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

    March 26, 2021
  • 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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    ‘Nora’, an excerpt, as read by its author Nuala O’Connor

    May 21, 2021

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

    March 12, 2021

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

    November 6, 2021
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