by Orna Ross | Oct 29, 2023 | - NON-MEMBER POSTS, POETRY |
Last month I had the pleasure of attending the London Irish Literary Society's “Poetry as Commemoration” event at the stunning Fitzrovia Chapel. Poetry as Commemoration invited communities to turn to poetry as a mode of understanding and expressing...
by Orna Ross | Oct 27, 2023 | - NON-MEMBER POSTS, FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
As most of you know, I'm in the middle of writing my biggest project EVER–a seven-book biographical fiction series, based around the true-life stories of two giants of Irish history, the activist Maud Gonne and the poet WB Yeats. These two, together with Maud's...
by Orna Ross | Sep 24, 2023 | - NON-MEMBER POSTS, POETRY |
As my patrons know, old and medieval Irish poetry is completely captivating me at the moment. I've been working for a while now on a series of poems inspired by these early writers and creating a book that, for the moment I'm calling, “My Irish Poems”. I'm...
by Orna Ross | Aug 25, 2023 | - NON-MEMBER POSTS, FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
Somehow, without my willing it, actually against my wanting it, my book about Maud Gonne and WB Yeats turned itself into a series. This huge, crazy, ambitious project has been going on so long it feels like a piece of historical fiction in itself! If all goes...
by Orna Ross | Aug 11, 2023 | - NON-MEMBER POSTS, GO CREATIVE! |
Tuesday saw the funeral of that brave, beautiful, belligerent soul, Sinéad O'Connor. In Ireland we have a saying when a great person dies. “We'll never see their like again.” We need to see more like Sinéad O'Connor. For that to happen, we all need to see...
by Orna Ross | Jun 23, 2023 | - NON-MEMBER POSTS, FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
It was only partly true that the Gonne girls were brought up in France. They’d also lived at Howth and Donnybrook in Ireland, and for long spells with their English relatives in London, Richmond and Ascot. They’d spent summers in Switzerland and winters in Italy. And...