Maud Gonne Statue Kickstarter Campaign now live
Our “More than a Muse” campaign, a Kickstarter fundraiser to create a statue of Maud Gonne for Dublin is now … Read more
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Our “More than a Muse” campaign, a Kickstarter fundraiser to create a statue of Maud Gonne for Dublin is now … Read more
WB Yeats on Maud Gonne’s Beauty – Enjoy a new open fiction post for all.
I stumbled across an interview where Maud Gonne MacBride describes witnessing evictions in her youth and her involvement in the Land War.
UPDATED JULY 8 2024: This campaign aims to connect a body of people who intend to see Maud Gonne honoured … Read more
With tributes to Maud Gonne on public view in Dublin already, do we really need a street statue too? Yes, we do.
You are invited to what we hope will be an enchanting evening of literary exploration and creative collaboration: The Gonne-Yeats Series: Virtual Literary Salon (& “Statue for Maud” Uncommittee Meeting) on Wednesday, 12th June, at 7 PM UK time.
An uncommittee is a loose collective of people with a shared goal, interest or cause, who meet up to collaborate, as needed. This more creative approach avoids the hierarchical and bureaucratic aspects of traditional committees, such as rigid roles, red tape, and top-down decision-making. Coined by Orna Ross, novelist poet and founder of the Alliance of Independent Authors, who based it on the idea of the “unconference” that’s widespread in the self-publishing sector, an uncommittee eschew hierarchical structures in the same way, and foster a more egalitarian experience that thrives on spontaneity and serendipity.
Very pleased to find out that “Blue Mercy” is a winner again, this time it’s The Firebird Book Award as a first-place winner in the Mystery category.
Finding out that Maud Gonne and Eavan Boland share a death anniversary got me thinking about the way each of these two great Irishwomen engaged with the concept of “Mother Ireland”.
After the success of my book trailer for A LIfe Before, I’m now putting together another, this time for Blue Mercy. Here’s the audio, as scripted by Arth of BookBarns.