by Orna Ross | Nov 5, 2016 | Fiction |
On October 25th, which also happens to be the night the Man-Booker prize winner was announced this year, I won my own first prize as a novelist. It's not likely that you'll have heard of that award, for three reasons. It's an Irish prize, this is its first year in...
by Orna Ross | Oct 25, 2016 | Fiction |
The Carousel Aware Prize for the best independently published books in Ireland will be announced tonight, at a gala event in Dublin. I'm honored that Her Secret Rose is shortlisted in the Best Novel category and sad that, for personal reasons, I can't travel to...
by Orna Ross | Oct 12, 2016 | Fiction |
In this extract, we’re taking up the story, just before Mercy's father dies and she is arrested for the murder. At this point, she has returned to Ireland to care for him, he’s very old, he’s very ill and he’s as tyrannical as he ever was, in the days when she fled...
by Orna Ross | Sep 23, 2016 | Fiction |
Rather thrilled have been shortlisted for Best Novel in the CAP AWARDS-2016, along with: Thomas Paul Burgess for White Church, Black Mountain James Lawless for American Doll Pam Lecky for The Bowes Inheritance Neil Rochford for The Blue Ridge Project. The prize was...
by Orna Ross | Apr 7, 2016 | Fiction |
The first recorded Irish stories were Celtic. They presented our world as eternal, represented by the famous knotwork art produced for centuries in Ireland's monasteries. There are fewer stories about the moment of creation in Celtic culture than other tribes but one...
by Orna Ross | Apr 4, 2016 | Fiction |
“It was all ‘father, oh father’,” Bob Geldof says, mimicking a pious female voice addressing a priest. Then in his own voice: “Fuck off, you’re not my father.” Geldof is railing against Irish groveling to the Roman Catholic church in Fanatic Heart, a documentary...