by Orna Ross | Jun 20, 2025 | 1. MEMBER POSTS, Fiction |
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by Orna Ross | Jun 13, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, Fiction |
For almost two decades, on and off, I’ve been writing about Maud Gonne and W.B. Yeats, this couple who were separated by passion and politics, yet who remain forever coupled in the imagination of countless readers. First came A Dance in Time (Penguin, 2008), now...
by Orna Ross | Feb 7, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, Fiction |
I’m coming to the end of the final edits of ‘A Crowd of Stars: WB Yeats Poems to Maud Gonne with Commentary by the Muse’ This book was offered as a Kickstarter bonus if our statue campaign for Maud Gonne managed to cross our stretch goal of target £15,000. We did… and...
by Orna Ross | Oct 21, 2024 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, Fiction, Poetry |
Hello from Ireland! I was full of vim and vigor last time I wrote, but have since been hit by a life wobble, which is why your newsletter is arriving so much later than usual. My 88-year-old mother was taken ill a couple of weeks ago. We managed to keep her out of...
by Orna Ross | Oct 18, 2024 | Fiction |
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by Orna Ross | Sep 20, 2024 | 1. MEMBER POSTS, Fiction |
The image above is of Katherine Tynan, a prolific Irish writer and friend of WB Yeats, from the portrait painted by John Butler Yeats, his father. And here is the artist in an extract from my novel A Life Before, thinking about his sitter, mediated by the narrator,...