by Orna Ross | Sep 4, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Novel Excerpt: “Sometimes, not too often, really not often at all, I allow myself a small imagining. Not a why-oh-why, or a what-if; something closer to a dream. “It is dusk in summer and we are walking towards the lake. The fading light has greyed the...
by Orna Ross | Aug 15, 2012 | FICTION |
Exciting news from Ireland (for history nerds). Secrets of the 1916 Easter Rising and War of Independence have been revealed by a new project from The Bureau of Military History that focusses on eyewitness accounts of the time. How I would have loved these to have...
by Orna Ross | Jul 6, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Creatives have always known the value of community and that ideas – and the people who have them – attract each other. Just ask any writer or artist who left home for the big city. Now economists are putting a monetary value on that. In 1990, economist...
by Orna Ross | Jul 4, 2012 | Uncategorized |
“The kernel, the soul – let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances – is plagiarism. “For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside...