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What Happens After The Rising?

August 25, 2022August 20, 2015 by Orna Ross

The Irish Independent caught up with me while I was at the Yeats Summer School in Sligo to talk about … Read more

Irish Secrets of The Past Uncovered

August 25, 2022August 15, 2012 by Orna Ross

Exciting news from Ireland (for history nerds). Secrets of the 1916 Easter Rising and War of Independence have been revealed by a new project from The Bureau of Military History that focusses on eyewitness accounts of the time.

How I would have loved these to have been available when I was researching my first novel. In those days, I had to hunt deep – in the National Library, museum of military history, University College Dublin Archives and other archival sources, for accounts of what had actually happened. So much myth and legend surrounds those times in Ireland, with so many commentators having

Change To Friday Fiction

August 25, 2022October 3, 2011 by Orna Ross

Because I've just been given an exciting new screenwriting opportunity (of which more anon)… and because, as advised by Joanna last week, I need to have my published novels e-reader-ready for Christmas… and because I'm also publishing a poetry book this month…, I find I have to put Skin Diving on hold.

This hurts. I've spent days resisting. Firstly, your feedback told me you were enjoying the chapter-by-chapter, Friday fiction slot. So was I.

And I've been carrying this story about the MacIntyre family for years. A part of me, a very big part of me, wants more than anything to write this book. That's why I started serialising it in the first place.

But I've learned enough about the creative process to know