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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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    Playground of the Apocalypse

    May 31, 2022

    Fall 2023 Lands

    October 6, 2023

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

    March 17, 2022
  • Ireland

    Seán Carlson

    Bus to Ballybunion The five o’clock bus is nearly full by the time it leaves Tralee eight minutes after the hour. The transport lurches from the station, shifting between low gears in afternoon traffic. “This is ridiculous,” an older man says. “It is,” a younger woman affirms across the aisle. “Every day now,” one of them offers. The first temporary-protection permit holders arrived in Ballybunion six months after the Irish Times declared “Scores killed as Russia invades Ukraine from land, sea, and air.” A local crowd almost the same in size gathered on the beach in welcome beneath a cliff-top castle wall. At first, Ukrainian licence plates adorned some cars…

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    Winter/Spring issue 2025 is here!

    February 10, 2025

    Spring 2024 is here!

    March 21, 2024

    Winter 2023 Arrives

    January 4, 2024
  • 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

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

    March 17, 2022

    Summer 2022 Released

    June 20, 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

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

    May 21, 2021

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

    November 6, 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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    Some Days The Bird

    November 13, 2022

    Summer 2022 Released

    June 20, 2022

    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 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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    Summer 2022 Released

    June 20, 2022

    Winter/Spring issue 2025 is here!

    February 10, 2025

    Summer 2023 is here!

    June 28, 2023
  • 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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  • 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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    Summer 2023 is here!

    June 28, 2023

    Some Days The Bird

    November 13, 2022

    First Quarterly Issue of Trasna Released

    March 14, 2022
  • 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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    Summer 2022 Released

    June 20, 2022

    Summer 2023 is here!

    June 28, 2023

    Some Days The Bird

    November 13, 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

    Playground of the Apocalypse

    May 31, 2022

    Winter/Spring issue 2025 is here!

    February 10, 2025
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