by Orna Ross | Aug 20, 2015 | FICTION
The Irish Independent caught up with me while I was at the Yeats Summer School in Sligo to talk about the Easter Rising of 1916, what it meant to WB Yeats and what it meant to me, growing up in a small Irish village in the 1960s and 70s, in the shadow of the Irish...
by Orna Ross | Aug 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
SECRET ROSE is an unusual publication, bringing together two books that were published more than a century apart and by two very different writers: WB Yeats’s book of talismanic short stories, The Secret Rose (1897) and my novel, Her Secret Rose (2015), based on the...
by Orna Ross | Aug 3, 2015 | FICTION
In a few hours time, I'll launch Secret Rose, my special edition two-in-one book tribute to WB Yeats. I'll write soon about how it went and what I said… (I never know all in advance, so much depends on the group and the energy in the room). What I do know: I'll...
by Orna Ross | Jul 27, 2015 | FICTION
I've gone back to school! I'm writing this from the back of an unusual lecture hall — the Hawk's Well Theatre in Sligo, after a very fine lecture, “The Epiphanic Yeats” by Dr Matthew Campbell, Professor of English at the University of York....
by Orna Ross | Jun 24, 2022 | FICTION
Althea Gyles, the artist and writer who designed the cover of WB Yeats's The Secret Rose (which I reproduced on my special edition book back in 2015), has been variously described as: the “genius who invented a symbolic personality for Yeats” (Warwick...
by Orna Ross | Jul 15, 2015 | FICTION
“WB Yeats Was An Indie Author” says Orna Ross, Irish Director of the Alliance of Independent Authors, launching her new book which combines Yeats’ short story collection with her novel in a special tribute edition for #Yeats2015. 15.7.2015: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...
by Orna Ross | Jul 13, 2015 | Uncategorized |
I went to see Asif Kapadia's movie Amy on Saturday night, a documentary about the life and death of Amy Winehouse. The movie is well done, and tells a classic “destructive-creative” story, pretty much what you imagine Amy’s life to have been like, reading between the...
by Orna Ross | Jul 12, 2015 | FICTION
The Secret Rose Hall of Fame I want to thank the wonderful people who supported my crowdfunder project to make, publicise and distribute my special commemorative two-in-one book, in replica of WB Yeats 1897 first edition of The Secret Rose. Friends and patrons, I am...
by Orna Ross | Jul 6, 2015 | Gonne-Yeats Series |
On Yeats day 2015, I travelled to Dublin to collect a first edition copy of WB Yeat's short story collection, The Secret Rose, from the lovely Tanya Collie of Broadford books. This first edition was purchased by a Mr Danny O'Sullivan as part of my crowdfunder...