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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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    ‘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

    Beannachtaí Trasna

    January 9, 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 Casey. Over the course of a full year, each poet had written a poem to the other in alternating weeks. What resulted was a wonderful collection of 52 poems in conversation with each other from across the globe and seasons. You can read about the genesis for this project in an Irish Times interview. With gratitude to Heather and Anne, we include below their readings of the two poems published here in Trasna, and invite you to order their collection…

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    about:blank by Adam Wyeth

    January 15, 2022

    Patrick Kavanagh: a Reader’s Experience

    February 10, 2022

    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 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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    Patrick Kavanagh: a Reader’s Experience

    February 10, 2022

    Some Days The Bird

    November 13, 2022

    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 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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    Aguisín, (“Afterword”) a Reading by Aifric Mac Aodha

    March 12, 2021

    Beannachtaí Trasna

    January 9, 2022

    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 2022
  • Essay,  Feature,  Ireland

    Playground of the Apocalypse

    by Shane O’Neill The strand is ravaged by the storm that had raged for two days, uprooting weeds and hurling rocks huge distances along the beach. Large chunks of sand have been torn away by the sea, leaving small dunes and bunkers for us to traverse unsteadily. The sky is still a heavy grey and we have to squint through the watery haze of falling rain and fight against the fierce winds. Black clouds are reflected in the tumultuous waters and barren black mountains tower over us. Tiny mussels are clamped to these monoliths, holding on tight against the forces of nature. In this deathscape, the natural elements blend into…

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

    March 12, 2021

    “On America” and Other Poems

    January 14, 2022

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

    November 6, 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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    Beannachtaí Trasna

    January 9, 2022

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

    May 21, 2021

    Fall 2022 Released

    September 22, 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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    ‘Nora’, an excerpt, as read by its author Nuala O’Connor

    May 21, 2021

    Some Days The Bird

    November 13, 2022

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

    November 6, 2021
  • 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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    A Review of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Poetry

    April 12, 2022

    “On America” and Other Poems

    January 14, 2022

    Beannachtaí Trasna

    January 9, 2022
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