by Orna Ross | Feb 10, 2014 | Uncategorized |
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and...
by Orna Ross | Feb 3, 2014 | FICTION |
The wonderful Jane Dixon-Smith has just delivered the covers for the Yeats-Gonne trilogy, Between The Words, and yes, I'm a tad excited! Jane's done a wonderful job as always. These novels have been a long time in the writing. WB Yeats was 23-years-old when Maud...
by Orna Ross | Feb 1, 2014 | POETRY |
My mother's name is Brigid, though everyone knows her as Ida, named as almost every Irish person used to be, after a saint. St Brigid, one of the patron saints of Ireland, whose feast day is today, the old Irish imbolc, the first day of spring. Much to my own surprise...
by Orna Ross | Jan 27, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Knowing that the same elemental, dangerous energy that moves the wind also moves me, the only approach to life that makes sense to me is the creative way. And knowing that I am an advocate for this way, people often ask me: if I did ‘go creative', what would...