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  • Australia,  Canada,  Essay,  Feature,  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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    A Review of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Poetry

    April 12, 2022

    Some Days The Bird

    November 13, 2022

    Fall 2023 Lands

    October 6, 2023
  • 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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    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 2022

    Fall 2023 Lands

    October 6, 2023

    Spring 2023 Released

    March 20, 2023
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    Beannachtaí Trasna

    In this first post on our new website we offer a blessing to all as we enter this new year of 2022. Here, Mawie Barrett, in her specially written Celtic Druid blessing weaves together connections from Ireland to Lowell and beyond.

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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

    Winter 2022 Released

    December 31, 2022
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