by Orna Ross | Aug 20, 2015 | FICTION
The Irish Independent caught up with me while I was at the Yeats Summer School in Sligo to talk about the Easter Rising of 1916, what it meant to WB Yeats and what it meant to me, growing up in a small Irish village in the 1960s and 70s, in the shadow of the Irish...
by Orna Ross | Aug 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
SECRET ROSE is an unusual publication, bringing together two books that were published more than a century apart and by two very different writers: WB Yeats’s book of talismanic short stories, The Secret Rose (1897) and my novel, Her Secret Rose (2015), based on the...
by Orna Ross | Aug 3, 2015 | FICTION
In a few hours time, I'll launch Secret Rose, my special edition two-in-one book tribute to WB Yeats. I'll write soon about how it went and what I said… (I never know all in advance, so much depends on the group and the energy in the room). What I do know: I'll...
by Orna Ross | Jul 27, 2015 | FICTION
I've gone back to school! I'm writing this from the back of an unusual lecture hall — the Hawk's Well Theatre in Sligo, after a very fine lecture, “The Epiphanic Yeats” by Dr Matthew Campbell, Professor of English at the University of York....