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  • 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 issue here.

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    “On America” and Other Poems

    January 14, 2022

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

    November 6, 2021

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

    March 12, 2021
  • 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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    Fall 2023 Lands

    October 6, 2023

    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,  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

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

    May 21, 2021

    Fall 2023 Lands

    October 6, 2023
  • 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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    Fall 2023 Lands

    October 6, 2023

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

    November 6, 2021

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

    March 12, 2021
  • 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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    ‘Nora’, an excerpt, as read by its author Nuala O’Connor

    May 21, 2021

    Fall 2023 Lands

    October 6, 2023

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

    November 6, 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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    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

    “On America” and Other Poems

    January 14, 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 of nature and the durability of human connections. In this volume, O’Sullivan has been praised for her keen eye, lightness of touch, and depth of feeling. While the subject of O’Sullivan’s previous volume, Elsewhere, centered on an extensive trip to 13 countries, much of her current volume explores her native Ireland.…

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    “On America” and Other Poems

    January 14, 2022

    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

    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 discovery of a role-model: Nessa O’Mahony on Eavan Boland “… Perhaps I’m mis-remembering. The next reading of hers I do recall was a much smaller affair in the back-garden of a bookshop in the leafy Dublin suburb of Rathgar. Eavan was reading the poem, ‘The Black Lace Fan My Mother…

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    “On America” and Other Poems

    January 14, 2022

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

    November 6, 2021

    Fall 2023 Lands

    October 6, 2023
  • 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 have on those who live there.  In one of his essays ‘Shirts for Books,’ Sirr discusses the loss of a landmark bookshop: “The death of a bookshop always hits hard. There are never that many of them to begin with and they are rarely replaced, so that one more opportunity…

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    “On America” and Other Poems

    January 14, 2022

    Fall 2023 Lands

    October 6, 2023

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

    May 21, 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 Hayes-McCoy’s storytelling, which critics have compared to Maeve Binchy’s, and, coincidentally, the book’s sensitive portrayal of physical and emotional isolation from family will resonate with readers after a year of lockdown. In discussing her latest novel, Hayes-McCoy says “What’s concealed and revealed in Irish life has always fascinated me, particularly…

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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

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

    November 6, 2021
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