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  • 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, & Jimmy Kerr. Read Issue #4 here.

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

    March 17, 2022

    Beannachtaí Trasna

    January 9, 2022

    Playground of the Apocalypse

    May 31, 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, and Daragh Fleming. Read Issue #3 here.

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    “On America” and Other Poems

    January 14, 2022

    A Review of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Poetry

    April 12, 2022

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

    March 17, 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, Fred Johnston, Shane O’Neill, and Linda Whittenberg. Read Issue #2 here.

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

    March 26, 2021

    Some Days The Bird

    November 13, 2022

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

    May 21, 2021
  • 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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    ‘Nora’, an excerpt, as read by its author Nuala O’Connor

    May 21, 2021

    Summer 2022 Released

    June 20, 2022

    A Review of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Poetry

    April 12, 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 professor of English at University College Dublin, Soundings presented the poetry curriculum for the final exam with unashamed emphasis on the texts of the poems, without recourse to illustrations or photographs or that patronising commentary that seems to dominate textbooks now. Martin in his introduction to the book speaks of…

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    Winter 2022 Released

    December 31, 2022

    Call for Submissions

    January 23, 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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    Playground of the Apocalypse

    May 31, 2022

    Summer 2022 Released

    June 20, 2022

    about:blank by Adam Wyeth

    January 15, 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 Europe. In sensuous and compelling prose O’Connor draws Nora as a staunchly nonliterary but original personality with her own distinctive voice. We see how Nora and Joyce dealt with his rising fame, his declining health, their family struggles. Their private tensions are set against the background  of a Europe convulsed…

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    Fall 2022 Released

    September 22, 2022

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

    March 17, 2022

    about:blank by Adam Wyeth

    January 15, 2022
  • 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 as a “future classic” by BookTrust and has so far sold around 25,000 copies – Little Island’s bestselling book ever! Hope against Hope is set in 1921. Ireland has been at war for two years. Communities are torn apart by bitter hatred – and now a hard border splits the island. In Belfast,…

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    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 2022

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

    March 12, 2021

    Playground of the Apocalypse

    May 31, 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 on Trasna with his wonderful essay, Dobhar Chú. The Cursing Stone – opening extract     County Donegal, Ireland, 1884. Your island home is threatened with mass evictions. What would you be willing to do to stop them? The Cursing Stone a novel by Tom Sigafoos ———————————————————————– Dedicated to the people of Tory…

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    Playground of the Apocalypse

    May 31, 2022

    Call for Submissions

    January 23, 2022

    Some Days The Bird

    November 13, 2022
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