by Orna Ross | Sep 16, 2020 | Fiction |
I'm reissuing my Irish novels in a centenary edition. It's almost 100 years since the events they describe happened and today Ireland is more than half-way through a ten-year program commemorating “the many significant centenaries” of the decade from 1913 to 1923”,...
by Orna Ross | Sep 9, 2020 | Fiction |
I am sooooo keen to get back to fiction, even though I've a lot of nonfiction projects still to finish. So I've devised a way to get a little drop of storytelling into each day. I'm going to go public on writing my next novel and start using my Facebook page as my...
by Orna Ross | Feb 28, 2020 | Fiction |
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 to get back to Ireland. She dispatches Iseult to London, to fetch their friend, the poet...
by Orna Ross | Jan 10, 2020 | Fiction |
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. Many of their Irish friends and acquaintances were involved. This extract describes what...
by Orna Ross | Nov 22, 2019 | Fiction |
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 forever. Last Friday, I wondered whether to open the novel with one of Maud's fiery political speeches....
by Orna Ross | Nov 15, 2019 | Fiction |
I'm thinking of opening Dancing in the Wind with one of Maud Gonne's fiery political speeches. But my question is: Would you read on if this was what you found in the first pages of a novel? The question is addressed more to those who haven't read Book One, Her Secret...