by Orna Ross | Mar 20, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, The Rest |
This is a post I wish I didn't have to write. As you may already know, my mother was recently diagnosed with an inoperable brain aneurysm. The medics have explained that this lesion will eventually rupture and bleed, ending her life — but they can’t say when. It could...
by Kayleigh Brindley | Mar 19, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, Go Creative! |
Below please find the preview of our next Member-Only Open Studio and your Go Creative! Planners for April 2025. The next Open Studio will run on Thursday April 3rd and I look forward to seeing you live, if possible (replay will issue the following week as an audio)....
by Shanaya Wagh | Feb 21, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS |
“The Mothers Who Never Forgot:” An Online Talk by Dr. Margaret Ward + Q&A On February 26, 2025, acclaimed historian Dr. Margaret Ward, author of Unmanageable Revolutionaries and Maud Gonne’s biographer, will give a presentation, followed by a Q&A. She'll...
by Orna Ross | Feb 19, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, The Rest |
Big social media news this week — Orna Ross Publications is moving to Pinterest I’m moving away from Facebook and Instagram due to Zuckerberg’s recent elimination of fact-checkers and general Trumpery. (I left X when Elon Musk bought it). It's been a difficult...
by Shanaya Wagh | Feb 17, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS |
Any future tour guide stopping at a statue of Gonne would have to devote considerable time to do justice to her complexity and robustness. Given the paucity of memorials to women adorning our capital, it would surely be a worthwhile addition. Diarmaid Ferriter says in...
by Orna Ross | Feb 16, 2025 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, Poetry |
Yes, Valentine’s Day is over—-but we all know love isn’t something to chuck away with the paper card. So here’s a poem to keep the love going–to remind us that we are not accidents, but offerings. My Only Answer: A Poem Don’t tell me you are just an accident who...