Fiction

DANCING IN THE WIND NOTEBOOK DAY 30: Unpublishe...

Some fabulous unpublished photographs of Maud Gonne have appeared in a new Irish documentary on TG4, Scéalta Grá na hÉireann, including a picture she carried around with her all her...

DANCING IN THE WIND NOTEBOOK DAY 29: Yeats Inte...

I'm interested in these thoughts of Declan Foley, Secretary of The Yeats Society of Victoria, Australia, and a native of Sligo on the proposal by Sligo county council to establish...

Dancing in the Wind Notebook Day 27: Yeats Scul...

A community group led by Irish poet Cahal Dallat, The WB Yeats Bedford Park Project, has commissioned a sculpture inspired by Yeats. It will be installed near the home he...

Friday Fiction: Iseult Gonne and Lucien Millevo...

Maud and Iseult Gonne are living in Normandy, taking refuge from the war in Paris, when they hear that John MacBride, Maud's husband, has been executed. This leaves Maud frantic...

Maud Gonne hears of John MacBride's Execution

The story has shifted to 1916. Maud and Iseult are living in Normandy, as the first world war wages and in Dublin, Irish freedom fighters have organized a botched insurrection....

The execution of John MacBride: Ireland's Easte...

This is a scene reimagining the execution of John MacBride, Maud Gonne's husband, for his part in the 1916 Rising. His death was to change life for Maud and Iseult...