by Shanaya Wagh | Dec 27, 2024 | - NON-MEMBER POSTS, Gonne-Yeats Series |
Any future tour guide stopping at a statue of Gonne would have to devote considerable time to do justice to her complexity and robustness. Given the paucity of memorials to women adorning our capital, it would surely be a worthwhile addition. Diarmaid Ferriter says in...
by Orna Ross | Oct 21, 2024 | - 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, Gonne-Yeats Series |
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by Orna Ross | Sep 20, 2024 | - MEMBER POSTS, FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
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,...
by Orna Ross | Sep 13, 2024 | #StatueforMaudGonne, FICTION |
Thank you again to everyone who contributed to the Kickstarter Campaign to see a street statue of Gonne in Dublin, and form a society to oversee this campaign (and hopefully many more). This is your latest update, with information about Kickstarter late pledges, a new...
by Orna Ross | Sep 4, 2024 | - NON-MEMBER POSTS, FICTION |
After the Rising & Before the Fall (Centenary Edition) has been honoured as a Gold Medal Winner in the 2024 Global Book Awards Winner, family saga category. This is a 2-in-1 special edition of the first two novels in my Irish Trilogy (Book 3 is in the first draft...