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  • 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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    Some Days The Bird

    November 13, 2022

    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 2022

    Summer 2022 Released

    June 20, 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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    Winter 2022 Released

    December 31, 2022

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

    March 17, 2022

    Fall 2023 Lands

    October 6, 2023
  • 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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    Playground of the Apocalypse

    May 31, 2022

    Patrick Kavanagh: a Reader’s Experience

    February 10, 2022

    ‘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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    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
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