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,...
by Orna Ross | Sep 13, 2024 | 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 | 2. 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...