by Orna Ross | Jul 8, 2022 | FICTION |
I'm happy to see that the WB Yeats Bedford Park Project is back in post-pandemic action! I was a proud supporter of the crowdfunder that raised money to create this public artwork in Bedford Park, West London, where WB Yeats spent some childhood years, and much of his...
by Orna Ross | Jul 1, 2022 | FICTION |
Ninety-nine years ago, my great-uncle Con (my father's uncle, pictured left), was shot and killed in the Irish Civil War in Wexford. Fifty years later, I grew up in the same small rural village as him, a village called Murrintown, a village that never mentioned the...
by Orna Ross | Jun 17, 2022 | FICTION |
This is an extract from the first book in my Yeats-Gonne series, A Life Before This One, a biographical fiction series about Maud Gonne, her daughter Iseult and the poet, WB Yeats, publishing later this year. In this extract, Rosy Cross witnesses the birth of Lily...
by Orna Ross | Jun 10, 2022 | FICTION |
I've been thinking a lot about hurting and healing lately — as I approach the end of the first draft of my latest novel, where I've *really* made my darlings suffer… (just so the healing feels all the better when it happens, of course!) Also I've just...
by Orna Ross | Jun 3, 2022 | FICTION |
One thing I love about writing historical fiction is doing the research. I often have to stop myself digging too deep while I'm working. I love the thrill of following a trail and getting to know new people, and the interconnections between them. This week I’ve been...
by Orna Ross | May 30, 2022 | FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
If you don't already know, my Yeats-Gonne book Her Secret Rose (first published in 2015) has morphed into a Yeats-Gonne series. There are both prequels and sequels to that novel now and it's had a major rewrite to fit this new scheme. I'll be talking about this...