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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, and N.K. Woods. Read on here.

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    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 2022

    Patrick Kavanagh: a Reader’s Experience

    February 10, 2022

    Summer 2022 Released

    June 20, 2022
  • 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, and Samantha Calthrop. Read on here.

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    Patrick Kavanagh: a Reader’s Experience

    February 10, 2022

    Winter/Spring issue 2025 is here!

    February 10, 2025

    Summer 2022 Released

    June 20, 2022
  • 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, Alan McCormick, George Moore, Alison McCrossan, and David Lohrey. Read on here.

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    Summer 2023 is here!

    June 28, 2023

    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 2022

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

    March 17, 2022
  • 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 American audiences the Christmas traditions of Ireland through a mix of music, dance, poetry, and storytelling. Born and raised in Clonakilty, Cork, O’Donovan emigrated to Boston in 1980. Six years later, he joined GBH radio and began producing a weekly radio show featuring traditional Irish music – A Celtic Sojourn. The three-hour show became a Saturday afternoon staple to GBH listeners across New England; and it made O’Donovan a beloved public figure. In 2017, then-Mayor Marty Walsh declared 14 December Brian O’Donovan…

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    Fall 2023 Lands

    October 6, 2023

    Some Days The Bird

    November 13, 2022

    Playground of the Apocalypse

    May 31, 2022
  • 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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    Aguisín, (“Afterword”) a Reading by Aifric Mac Aodha

    March 12, 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
  • Australia,  Canada,  Essay,  Fiction,  Ireland,  Literature,  Poetry,  Scotland,  SUMMER23,  UK,  USA

    Summer 2023 is here!

    Featuring poetry & prose from across the world, this quarterly includes new work by Lorraine Carey, Nathanael O’Reilly, Áine Rose Connell, Eve Elliot, Gill Ryan, E.R. Murray, Fred Johnston, Ross Moore, and Patrick O’Sullivan. Read the current issue here.

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    Summer 2022 Released

    June 20, 2022

    Some Days The Bird

    November 13, 2022

    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 2022
  • Essay,  Fiction,  Ireland,  Literature,  Poetry,  SPRING23,  UK,  USA

    Spring 2023 Released

    Featuring poetry & prose from across the world, this quarterly includes new work by Nuala O’Connor, the late Kevin Higgins, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Gráinne Daly, Derville Quigley, Elizabeth Power, John Noonan, Michael Begnal, & Katie Harper Garrett. Read the current issue here.

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    Winter 2023 Arrives

    January 4, 2024

    Playground of the Apocalypse

    May 31, 2022

    Summer 2022 Released

    June 20, 2022
  • 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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    Playground of the Apocalypse

    May 31, 2022

    Patrick Kavanagh: a Reader’s Experience

    February 10, 2022

    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 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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    Summer 2023 is here!

    June 28, 2023

    Summer 2022 Released

    June 20, 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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