by Orna Ross | Oct 18, 2024 | FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
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by Orna Ross | Sep 20, 2024 | - PATRON 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 | Jul 22, 2024 | #StatueforMaudGonne |
Our “More than a Muse” campaign, a Kickstarter fundraiser to create a statue of Maud Gonne for Dublin is now LIVE. We have created and curated some amazing rewards for our backers, from books to artworks to experiences. How To Support (With or Without a...
by Orna Ross | Jul 5, 2024 | - NON-PATRON POSTS, #StatueforMaudGonne, FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
We are on countdown to the Kickstarter for a Maud Gonne statue in Dublin, which will feature a special edition of my upcoming novel as a reward. Each day on Instagram, I'm featuring a post about the many different aspects of this fascinating woman who has been...
by Orna Ross | Jun 21, 2024 | - NON-PATRON POSTS, FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
I tumbled across this great interview of Maud Gonne, with Dr Eileen Dixon, in which she talks about the land wars of the 1880s. From the RTE archive, it was recorded on 28 December 1945, and in it Maud Gonne MacBride describes witnessing evictions in her youth, and...