by Orna Ross | Aug 1, 2024 | - NON-PATRON POSTS |
Summer has finally set in, here in St Leonards on Sea. I hope you're having sunny days, wherever you are. Maud Gonne Statue Campaign: Moving Forward First and foremost, I’m delighted to report that the Maud Gonne Statue Kickstarter Campaign continues to gain momentum....
by Orna Ross | Jul 30, 2024 | - NON-PATRON POSTS |
This campaign aims to connect a body of people who intend to see Maud Gonne honoured with a statue in Dublin. Here is the timeline of events to date: July 8: first press release July 22: Phase 1 of the campaign was launched with a Kickstarter campaign July 23: The...
by Orna Ross | Jul 26, 2024 | - NON-PATRON POSTS |
I asked Shanaya Wagh to write this post about one of the planned rewards for our Maud Gonne statue campaign: a creative retreat at Rossnaree House, the home of Gonnne's great-granddaughter. Shanaya came to ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors, as an intern...
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 | Jul 1, 2024 | - NON-PATRON POSTS |
July is an exciting month, as we're set to launch our Kickstarter campaign to bring ‘More Than A Muse' to life and honour Maud Gonne with a statue in Dublin on the 22nd. I'll be featuring WB Yeats poems to Maud Gonne for the month on the blog to celebrate....
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...